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5 words matching 'ない' found
ない is an exact match with one form of the following word:
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Reading : ない   
suffix
inside; within  (opposite: )
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Kanshudo usefulness level: 7 (among the 20,000 most useful words in Japanese)
• Kanshudo usefulness level is based on a usefulness score of 67,664 which gives a rank of 12,919
内 is the most useful form. 1 additional form is shown below.
• This form is used about 10% of the time
• Google Japan frequency rank: 400 (about 2,090,000,000 results)
• Wikipedia most common 20000 words rank: 134
Example sentences:
じょうらん
上欄
ある
こうもくめい
項目名
うち
いんさつ
印刷
したい
こうもく
項目
えら
んで
[
した
いどう
移動
]ボタンクリックします
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ターミナル
ない
ほあんけんさ
保安検査
まえ
こうにゅう
購入
された
えきたいぶつ
液体物
がいとう
該当
いたします
Liquids you bought in the terminal before (reaching) the security checkpoint also fall under these rules.
はばつ
派閥
ない
こうそう
抗争
しんぎ
審議
ししょう
支障
きたしました
Factional in-fighting threw a monkey wrench into the deliberations.
ない
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Usefulness and usage:
• This form is used about 90% of the time
• Google Japan frequency rank: 300 (about 2,840,000,000 results)
ない is an exact match with one form of the following word:
ない
BOOST
1. nonexistent; not being (there)  (see also: 亡い; often written with kana only)
2. unpossessed; unowned; not had
3. unique  (see also: またとない)
4. indicates negation, inexperience, unnecessariness or impossibility  (as ...ことがない, etc.)
auxiliary adjective
5. not ...  (see also: ない; after the ren'youkei form of an adjective)
6. to not be...; to have not ...  (after the -te form of a verb)
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Kanshudo usefulness level: 3 (among the 3,000 most useful words in Japanese)
• Kanshudo usefulness level is based on a usefulness score of 125,318 which gives a rank of 2,432
ない is the most useful form. 1 additional form is shown below.
This word is a member of our collection of the 10,000 most useful words in Japanese:
• This form is used about 90% of the time
• Google Japan frequency rank: 300 (about 2,520,000,000 results)
• Wikipedia most common 20000 words rank: 21
• This form appears in the 1998 'Ichimango goi bunruishuu' frequent word list by Senmon Kyouiku
• This form appears in the 24,000 words in the Mainichi Shimbun frequency analysis by Alexandre Girardi
• This form is in band 45 in the EDICT word frequency file (bands go from 1-48, where 1 is most common - each contains about 500 words)
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Example sentences:
まこ
真子
この
てがみ
手紙
かいたはずない
Mako cannot have written this letter.
わたし
かれ
まった
かんけい
関係
ない
I have nothing to do with them.
すわ
いすない
There's no chair to sit upon.
無い
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Reading : ない   
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Usefulness and usage:
• This form is used about 10% of the time
• Google Japan frequency rank: 3,000 (about 307,000,000 results)
• iknow! Core 6000 rank: 247 (see iKnow! collections)
• Wikipedia most common 20000 words rank: 653
• This form appears in the 1998 'Ichimango goi bunruishuu' frequent word list by Senmon Kyouiku
• This form appears in the 24,000 words in the Mainichi Shimbun frequency analysis by Alexandre Girardi
• This form is in band 45 in the EDICT word frequency file (bands go from 1-48, where 1 is most common - each contains about 500 words)
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ない is an exact match with the following word:
ない
BOOST
auxiliary adjective
1. not  (verb-negating suffix, may indicate question or invitation with rising intonation)
2. emphatic suffix  (see also: 忙しない; after the root of an adjective)
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Kanshudo usefulness level: 6 (among the 15,000 most useful words in Japanese)
• Kanshudo usefulness level is based on a usefulness score of 74,594 which gives a rank of 10,405
• Google Japan frequency rank: 300 (about 2,720,000,000 results)
• Routledge most useful 5000 words rank: 27
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Example sentences:
しぜんかい
自然界
ほうび
褒美
なければ
ばち
ない
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments.
こんなん
困難
なくして
えいかん
栄冠
なし
No cross, no crown.
けっか
結果
なく
ふか
不可
なし
った
ところです
The result is neither good nor bad.
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ない is a reading of one form of the following word:
地震
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Readings : じしん    ない    なえ    じぶるい   
地震 can be read in 4 ways: じしん (60%), じぶるい (40%), なえ (rare), ない (rare).
noun
earthquake
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Usefulness and usage:
Kanshudo usefulness level: 1 (among the 500 most useful words in Japanese)
• Kanshudo usefulness level is based on a usefulness score of 189,693 which gives a rank of 79
地震 is the most useful form. 1 additional form is shown below.
This word is a member of our collection of the 10,000 most useful words in Japanese:
• This form is almost always used
• Google Japan frequency rank: 4,000 (about 268,000,000 results)
• This form appears in Wikipedia's list of JLPT N4 vocabulary (see JLPT collections)
• iknow! Core 6000 rank: 688 (see iKnow! collections)
• Wikipedia most common 20000 words rank: 1437
• One of the 1240 words included in the Genki textbooks
• This form appears in the 1998 'Ichimango goi bunruishuu' frequent word list by Senmon Kyouiku
• This form appears in the 24,000 words in the Mainichi Shimbun frequency analysis by Alexandre Girardi
• This form is in band 2 in the EDICT word frequency file (bands go from 1-48, where 1 is most common - each contains about 500 words)
Example sentences:
わたし
じしん
地震
こわ

I'm afraid of earthquakes.
けさ
今朝
じしん
地震
あった
There was an earthquake this morning.
じしん
地震
けがた
きた

The earthquake occurred at dawn.
じしん
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Usefulness and usage:
• This form is rarely used
• Google Japan frequency rank: 95,000 (about 2,120,000 results)
• This form appears in the 1998 'Ichimango goi bunruishuu' frequent word list by Senmon Kyouiku
• This form appears in the 24,000 words in the Mainichi Shimbun frequency analysis by Alexandre Girardi
• This form is in band 2 in the EDICT word frequency file (bands go from 1-48, where 1 is most common - each contains about 500 words)
ない is the reading of the following word:
亡い
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Reading : ない   
dead  (see also: 無い)
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Usefulness and usage:
Kanshudo usefulness level: 11 (among the 150,000 most useful words in Japanese)
• Kanshudo usefulness level is based on a usefulness score of 23,524 which gives a rank of 122,079
• Google Japan frequency rank: 218,000 (about 137,000 results)
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ナイ   ダイ   うち inside   
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wide
ジン   ニン   ひと person   
ム   ブ   な not   
チ   ジ    ground   
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ヤ   to be
ド   ト   ground; earth   つち ground, earth, soil   
シン   ふる    ふるえる to tremble, to shake   
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フ   あめ rain   
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シン   たつ dragon; 7-9 am   
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ニ   ふた    ふた two   
イ   ころも    きぬ clothes   
cliff
ボウ   モウ   dead   な to be deceased, to have ceased to be   
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shelf
lid
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