〜ぐるみ (~gurumi) — the whole ~, all together
A family, a town or an organisation — everyone in it acting as one.
Formula (सूत्र ढाँचा)
Grammar rule (व्याकरण नियम र परिभाषा)
When to use it
- Your family lives in Japan. Your children and the Tanakas' children next door walk to school together, and at festivals both families eat together.
- That is called 「家族ぐるみの付き合い」— a friendship not just between two people but joining every member of both families.
Meaning
「〜ぐるみ」says everyone inside N, with no one left out, takes part in something as one group.
How to attach
- Attach it as N + ぐるみ, followed by 「ぐるみの + N」or 「ぐるみで + verb」.
- In the news you often hear 「組織ぐるみの不正」(wrongdoing by the whole organisation), and the fixed phrase 「身ぐるみはがされる」means to be robbed of everything, even the clothes you wear.
Versus what you know
N3Tell it apart from the 「〜じゅう」(町じゅう = all over town): じゅう is something spread across a place (町じゅうが停電した), while ぐるみ is the people there acting together (町ぐるみで祭りを準備する).
Watch out
The key rule: N must be a group of people — family, neighbourhood, region, school, company, organisation — never one person or a stretch of time (✗田中さんぐるみ・✗一日ぐるみ).
Examples (उदाहरणहरू)
隣の田中さんとは、もう十年も家族ぐるみで付き合っている。
となりのたなかさんとは、もうじゅうねんもかぞくぐるみでつきあっている。
We've been close family friends with the Tanakas next door for ten years.
How it is built (कसरी बन्यो) 家族 = family → 「ぐるみ」= all the family members together → 「で」 → 付き合っている = we've kept up the friendship → not just two people, but the whole family.
夏祭りを成功させようと、町ぐるみで準備が進められている。
なつまつりをせいこうさせようと、まちぐるみでじゅんびがすすめられている。
The whole town is working together on preparations to make the summer festival a success.
How it is built (कसरी बन्यो) 町 = the town (its people) → 「ぐるみで」= everyone together → 準備が進められている = preparations are moving ahead.
その会社では、組織ぐるみで検査データを書き換えていたことが分かった。
そのかいしゃでは、そしきぐるみでけんさデータをかきかえていたことがわかった。
It came to light that the company, as a whole organization, had been altering inspection data.
How it is built (कसरी बन्यो) 組織 = the organization → 「ぐるみで」= not one or two people, but the organization as a whole → 書き換えていた = had been altering → news style.
Knowledge check (मिनी ज्ञान जाँच)
「あの家とは、家族ぐるみ＿＿付き合いをしている。」— fill the blank.
💡 Hint: A noun (付き合い) follows.
N + ぐるみ + の + N. 家族ぐるみの付き合い = a friendship between whole families. Before a verb, use 「ぐるみで」(家族ぐるみで付き合う).
In which sentence is 「ぐるみ」unnatural?
💡 Hint: ぐるみ needs a group of people before it.
一日 is a stretch of time, not a group of people. For 'all day', say 「一日じゅう」. 町・組織・家族 are groups of people.
「台風で、＿＿停電した。」— fill the blank.
💡 Hint: People acting together, or something that happened all over a place?
A power cut isn't something people do together; it happens all over a place — so 「町じゅう」. 「町ぐるみ」is only for people doing something together (町ぐるみで祭りを開く).
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