The Japanese dictionary for learners.

Instant search in romaji, kana, kanji, #k [kanji], or components #c [radicals].

search
Examples:

ならない ならない

  1. awfully; cannot help (feeling); irresistibly; unbearably
  2. must not ...; should not ...
  3. have to ...; must ...; ought to ...
  4. cannot; unable to
  5. not

なければならない なければならない

  1. have to do; must; ought to; should

無くてはならない なくてはならない

  1. absolutely necessary; cannot do without something; indispensable
  2. have to do

如何にもならない どうにもならない

  1. beyond help; cannot be done; futile; hopeless; no use

でなければならない でなければならない

  1. having to be; must be; ought to be; should be

儘ならない ままならない

  1. able to do only with great effort; almost impossible to do; beyond one's control; not always turning out as one wishes; not going the way one wants it to; unable to do (as one wishes)

相撲にならない すもうにならない

  1. can't hold a candle to; is no match for

退っ引きならない のっぴきならない

  1. inescapable; inevitable; unavoidable
  2. beyond help; hopeless

馬鹿にならない ばかにならない

  1. not insignificant; not to be sneezed at

鼻持ちならない はなもちならない

  1. foul-smelling; stinking
  2. disgusting; intolerable (behaviour, attitude, etc.); unbearable
menu_book

Search for a word, a kanji or a sentence above.

Keyboard shortcut: press / to search.

What you can look up

A free dictionary built on open data (JMdict, KANJIDIC2, Tatoeba). Try a word like 食べる, a kanji like 水, or find a kanji by its parts in the radical search. New to kana, kanji or JLPT? Read the glossary, or see fudami and its data sources.