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予定だ(よていだ) — Planned / Scheduled to

Expresses a concrete plan or schedule. More definite than つもり (personal intention) — 予定 refers to officially arranged or fixed plans.

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Structure · 形

[Verb dictionary / Noun + の] + 予定だ/です

Examples · 例文

  • 来週、東京に出張する予定です。

    Raishuu, Toukyou ni shucchou suru yotei desu.

    I'm scheduled to go on a business trip to Tokyo next week.

    出張する (business trip) + 予定です

  • その会議は月曜日の予定です。

    Sono kaigi wa getsuyoubi no yotei desu.

    The meeting is planned for Monday.

    月曜日の + 予定です

  • 飛行機は午後三時に着く予定です。

    Hikouki wa gogo sanji ni tsuku yotei desu.

    The plane is scheduled to arrive at 3 p.m.

    着く (arrive, dictionary form) + 予定です — a fixed schedule

Usage notes · 注意

  • Key Concept: 予定だ (concrete scheduled plan) vs つもりだ (personal intention): 行く予定 (scheduled to go) vs 行くつもり (intend to go).
  • Note: 予定通り = as scheduled.
  • Note: 予定が変わった = the plan changed.

Commonly confused with

The JLPT rarely asks whether you recognise a pattern — it asks which of several similar patterns fits. These are the ones 予定だ is tested against.

vsつもりだ

予定だ is an objectively arranged/fixed schedule; つもりだ is a personal intention that hasn't necessarily been formalized (行く予定 = it's on the schedule vs 行くつもり = I intend to).

vs〜ことになっている

予定だ states a plan; ことになっている stresses that the arrangement was decided by circumstances/others and is now an established rule or fixed arrangement.

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