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dehanaku
expression, i adjective (negative)

Alternate Written Forms:

[では()·]
dehanaku

Matched Conjugations:

Adverbial Form
dehanaku

Root Words:

de + ha + naku

English Meaning(s) for ではなく

expression, i adjective (negative)
  1. is not; am not; are not
* Please note, you are viewing the Japanese readings in the adverbial form, while the english meanings are based on the dictionary form.

Stroke Order Diagrams for ではなく

Conjugations for ではなく

Adjective stem
dehana
te-form
dehanakute
Adverbial Form
dehanaku
Plain Form
Present Indicative Form
dehanai
Present Indicative Negative Form
dehanakunai
Past Indicative Form
dehanakatta
Past Indicative Negative Form
dehanakunakatta
Provisional Form
Present Indicative Form
dehanakereba
Conditional Form
Present Indicative Form
dehanakattara
Nominalized Form
Objective Form
dehanasa

Sample Sentences for ではなく

He likes not only baseball but football as well.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
What is important is not looks but personality.
We need action, not words.
What changes the world is communication, not information.

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