〜を踏まえて (~o fumaete) — based on / taking into account

Standing on results, opinions or past experience and thinking them through before the next step — a business and news form.

Formula (सूत्र ढाँचा)

N + を踏まえて + …

N + を踏まえた + N

Grammar rule (व्याकरण नियम र परिभाषा)

When to use it

In a company meeting the manager says: 「アンケートの結果を踏まえて、来月から改善します」— 'taking the survey results fully into account, we will make improvements from next month.'
It is stiff business and news language; with a friend 「〜を考えて」is enough.

Meaning

「踏まえる」means to plant your feet firmly on the ground. The feeling is: use something already done or known — results, opinions, a discussion, past mistakes — as the ground you stand on, think it through, and take the next step.

How to attach

Watch out — the other forms in this lesson take 「に」, but here the particle is 「を」: N + 「を踏まえて」, and before a noun 「を踏まえた N」.
What follows is thinking, deciding or planning (検討する・見直す・決める).

Versus what you know

N2「〜をもとに」(事実をもとに小説を書く) shows raw material for making something; 「踏まえて」is about deciding or planning 'with that understood and kept in mind'.
It also differs from the previous 「〜に照らして」: that one compares with a yardstick to judge right or wrong, while this one uses information as a base and moves forward.

Watch out

The key rule: information, experience or a situation goes in front — put a person there, as in 「友達を踏まえて」, and it sounds like 'stepping on your friend'.

Examples (उदाहरणहरू)

アンケートの結果を踏まえて、来年度のサービスを見直します。

アンケートのけっかをふまえて、らいねんどのサービスをみなおします。

Taking the survey results into account, we will review next year's services.

How it is built (कसरी बन्यो) アンケートの結果 = the survey results (something already known) → 「を踏まえて」= standing on that, taking it into account → then the next step: 見直します = we will review.

前回の失敗を踏まえて、今回は早めに準備を始めた。

ぜんかいのしっぱいをふまえて、こんかいははやめにじゅんびをはじめた。

Learning from last time's failure, I started preparing early this time.

How it is built (कसरी बन्यो) 前回の失敗 = last time's failure → 「を踏まえて」= learning from it, taking it into account → 今回は早めに準備を始めた = this time I started preparing early.

政府は、専門家の意見を踏まえた対策を発表した。

せいふは、せんもんかのいけんをふまえたたいさくをはっぴょうした。

The government announced measures that take experts' opinions into account.

How it is built (कसरी बन्यो) 専門家の意見 = experts' opinions → a noun (対策) comes after, so 「を踏まえた」 → 意見を踏まえた対策 = measures that take the opinions into account → 発表した = announced.

Knowledge check (मिनी ज्ञान जाँच)

Question: 1/3

「皆様のご意見＿＿踏まえて、改善してまいります。」— fill the blank.

💡 Hint: The one form in this lesson that takes 「を」.