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Definition and Synonyms for ない
| 1. | 無い | 所有者を持たないさま |
| Unowned | having no owner | |
| Synonyms: | ある, ない | |
| 2. | ない | 動機づけられる |
| Out Of | motivated by | |
| Synonyms: | ある, ない, ない, なう | |
| 3. | 無 | 存在しない状態 |
| Nihility | the state of nonexistence | |
| Synonyms: | ない, 無, 無, 虚無 | |
| 4. | 無し | 重要でない量 |
| Nix | a quantity of no importance | |
| Synonyms: | ない, なし, ゼロ, ナッシング, 無, 無, 皆無, 絶無, 零 |
Categories ない is a member of
| 1. | 烏有 | 存在しないこと |
| Nonexistence | the state of not existing | |
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| 2. | ある目的に関連している量 | |
| Relative Quantity | a quantity relative to some purpose | |
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Conjugations for ない
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Sample Sentences for ない
いまだかつて偉大なもので熱烈な精神なくして成し遂げられたものは何もない。
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
日本でのツイッター人気の理由の一つは日本語という言語の特性にある。表意文字を使う日本語は、中国語には敵わないものの、他の多くの言語に比べて140字に多くの内容を盛り込むことができる。ちなみにこの例文の日本語版はちょうど140字で書かれているのだが、他の言語では何字になるだろうか？
One of the reasons Twitter is popular in Japan is a characteristic of Japanese itself: Japanese uses ideograms which enable it to convey more information in just 140 characters than other languages, not counting Chinese. Incidentally, the Japanese version of this sentence is written with exactly 140 characters. How many characters does it take in other languages?
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