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〜から/〜で作る details

から作る

made from; made out of — から where the material is transformed, で where it still shows

日本酒にほんしゅこめからつくられます。

nihonshu wa kome kara tsukuraremasu.

Sake is made from rice. neutral

この椅子いすつくったの?すごいね。

kono isu, ki de tsukutta no? sugoi ne.

You made this chair out of wood? That's impressive. casual

  • alternant
  • past
  • polite

Examples

made from — the raw material is transformed, and you cannot see it in the result

日本酒にほんしゅこめからつくられます。

nihonshu wa kome kara tsukuraremasu.

Sake is made from rice. neutral

これ、牛乳ぎゅうにゅうからつくったチーズなんだって。

kore, gyuunyuu kara tsukutta chiizu na n datte.

Apparently this is cheese made from milk. casual

made out of — the material is still there to see in the finished thing

この椅子いすつくったの?すごいね。

kono isu, ki de tsukutta no? sugoi ne.

You made this chair out of wood? That's impressive. casual

当社とうしゃ食器しょっきは、すべて国産こくさんつくっております。

tousha no shokki wa, subete kokusan no ki de tsukutte orimasu.

All of our tableware is made out of domestically grown wood. formal

Formation

Variant notes

Notes

The split is what the eye can still find: かみからつく
(the wood is gone), 本棚ほんだなつくる (the wood is the shelf).

Related patterns

Similar

  • で spans venue, tool, cause and material at once; this is its material corner, and the only corner where から can take over — つくる and からつくる are both Japanese, while ×はさみからる is not.

Lookalikes

  • Same から, and the noun in front tells you which — a material feeds つくる and answers なにから (こめから), a reason answers どうして and can be a whole clause (寝坊ねぼうしたから), which no material ever is.

Combines with

  • Product descriptions almost always passivize this frame, because the maker is irrelevant and the material is the news — つくられる puts the material in the から slot and the product in the topic.