〜たて details

Examples

fresh, straight from having just been made — a small, closed set of creation/production verbs

焼やきたてのパンはやっぱり美味おいしい。

yakitate no pan wa yappari oishii.

Fresh-baked bread really is the best. casual

炊たきたてのご飯はんに卵たまごをかけて食たべるのが好すきです。

takitate no gohan ni tamago o kakete taberu no ga suki desu.

I like eating freshly cooked rice with a raw egg on top. neutral

できたてのカレーは香かおりが全然ぜんぜん違ちがいます。

dekitate no karee wa kaori ga zenzen chigaimasu.

Freshly made curry smells completely different. neutral

本日ほんじつ、こちらの野菜やさいはすべて朝あさとれたての品しなでございます。

honjitsu, kochira no yasai wa subete asa toretate no shina de gozaimasu.

Today, all of these vegetables were picked fresh this morning. formal

Formation

masu-stem＋たて — closed set — 焼きたて (fresh-baked), できたて (freshly made), 炊きたて (freshly cooked), とれたて (fresh-caught/picked)attaches to verb stem (special attachment)

Notes

A closed word list, not a productive rule — ×走りたて, ×読みたて are not
said. Works as a predicate (焼きたてだ) or prenominally (焼きたてのパン);
don't confuse with 一戸建て-style 〜建て ("built as"), an unrelated たて.

Related patterns

Similar

たばかりだ
Both claim "just happened," but たばかり is a general recency claim usable with almost any verb (来たばかりだ); たて is a closed set of maybe a dozen creation/production words (焼きたて, できたて) and prizes sensory freshness — still warm, still crisp — over the plain clock.