N4 grammar

〜にする

nisuru

Settling on it

Formation

にする picks one option out of several, which is why it is the verb for ordering in a restaurant. It also means turning one thing into another. になる is the same frame for changes nobody chose.

Examples

〜にする is marked in each sentence. Tap any word for its dictionary entry.

  1. If you are a good girl, you shall have candy.

  2. Do you all place great importance on morals?

  3. Would you like a single or a double?

  4. The cold north wind turned the leaves brown.

  5. My father intends that I should become an engineer.

The explanation is ours, written for this site. Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), each machine-checked to actually contain the pattern. Furigana is generated automatically, so a rare reading may be imperfect.