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nai
i adjective (negative), auxiliary adjective

Alternate Written Forms:

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English Meaning(s) for ない

i adjective (negative)
  1. nonexistent; not being (there)
  2. unowned; not had; unpossessed
  3. unique
  4. not; impossible; won't happen (as ...ことがない, etc.; indicates negation, inexperience, unnecessariness or impossibility)
auxiliary adjective
  1. not (after the ren'youkei form of an adjective)
  2. to not be; to have not (after the -te form of a verb)

Definition and Synonyms for ない

Unowned having no owner
Synonyms: ある, ない
Out Of motivated by
Synonyms: ある, ない, ない, なう
Nihility the state of nonexistence
Synonyms: ない, , , 虚無
Nix a quantity of no importance
Synonyms: ない, なし, ゼロ, ナッシング, , , 皆無, 絶無,

Categories ない is a member of

Nonexistence the state of not existing
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Relative Quantity a quantity relative to some purpose
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Stroke Order Diagrams for ない

Conjugations for ない

Adjective stem
na
te-form
nakute
Adverbial Form
naku
Plain Form
Present Indicative Form
nai
Present Indicative Negative Form
nakunai
Past Indicative Form
nakatta
Past Indicative Negative Form
nakunakatta
Provisional Form
Present Indicative Form
nakereba
Conditional Form
Present Indicative Form
nakattara
Nominalized Form
Objective Form
nasa

Sample Sentences for ない

Seeing that she was not excited at the news, she must have known it.
Not everyone can afford a car.
The interdependence of thought and speech makes it clear that languages are not so much a means of expressing truth that has already been established, but a means of discovering truth that was previously unknown. Their diversity is a diversity not of sounds and signs but of ways of looking at the world.
I have nothing to do with the case.
I try to watch live TV as much as possible instead of recordings.

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