全て

Japanese
Kanji in this term
全
すべ
Grade: 3
kun’yomi
Alternative spellings
総て
凡て
惣て
渾て
都て (dated)

Etymology

Originally the -te conjunctive form of Old Japanese verb 統ぶ (subu); compare modern 統べる (suberu, “to gather many things together; to treat many things as a single group”).[1][2]

Pronunciation

Adverb

全(すべ)て • (subete) 

  1. entirely, completely; all
    Synonym: 悉く (kotogotoku)
    見(み)たことを全(すべ)て話(はな)す
    mita koto o subete hanasu
    to tell everything one has seen
    (literally, “to tell entirely what one has seen”)
    • 1947, 海野十三, 断層顔:
      では、私(わたし)の方(ほう)で御(お)尋(たず)ねすることは全(すべ)て終(おわ)りましてございます。
      De wa, watashi no hō de o-tazune suru koto wa subete owarimashite gozaimasu.
      My inquiries are hereby entirely concluded.
  2. in general, approximately
    Synonyms: おおよそ (ōyoso), 大体 (daitai), 総じて (sōjite)
  3. (with negative verb) at all, completely
    Synonyms: 全然 (zenzen), 丸っ切り (marukkiri)

Synonyms

Noun

全(すべ)て • (subete) 

  1. everything, all
    Synonym: 一切 (issai)
    全(すべ)てはいかがですか。
    Subete wa ikaga desu ka.
    How is everything?
    • 1948, 坂口安吾, ヤミ論語:
      もとより、作(さっ)家(か)は自(みずか)らの文(ぶん)章(しょう)に全(すべ)ての責(せき)任(にん)を負(お)うている。
      Motoyori, sakka wa mizukara no bunshō ni subete no sekinin o oute iru.
      Of course, the writer bears all of the responsibility for what he writes.

Usage notes

This term is more commonly spelled in hiragana.

Synonyms

References
  1. Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
  • 2002, Yasuo Kitahara, 明鏡国語辞典 (Meikyō Kokugo Jiten), First Edition (in Japanese), Tokyo: Taishūkan Shoten, →ISBN
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