"なく" meaning in Japanese

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      "args": {
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      },
      "expansion": "ない (nai)",
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "だ"
      },
      "expansion": "だ (da)",
      "name": "ja-r"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Regular adverbial form of ない (nai), when used as either a verb suffix or as the plain negative of the copula だ (da).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "naku",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "adverb"
      },
      "expansion": "なく • (naku)",
      "name": "ja-pos"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
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            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
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        {
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "extra": "nai",
          "word": "ない"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "adverbial or continuative form of ない (nai)"
      ],
      "id": "en-なく-ja-adv-3fvkLcDc",
      "links": [
        [
          "ない",
          "ない#Japanese"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "english": "to lose something",
          "roman": "nakusu",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "無",
              "な"
            ],
            [
              "亡",
              "な"
            ],
            [
              "失",
              "な"
            ]
          ],
          "word": "無くす, 亡くす, 失くす"
        },
        {
          "english": "even if not, even without",
          "roman": "nakutemo",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "無",
              "な"
            ]
          ],
          "word": "無くても"
        },
        {
          "english": "to lose something",
          "roman": "nakunasu",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "無",
              "な"
            ]
          ],
          "word": "無くなす"
        },
        {
          "roman": "nakunaru",
          "word": "無くなる: to disappear"
        },
        {
          "word": "to get lost"
        },
        {
          "word": "to run out"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "adverbial",
        "continuative",
        "form-of"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "なく"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[na̠kɯ̟]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "なく"
}

{
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "soft-redirect",
  "redirects": [
    "泣く",
    "鳴く"
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "id": "en-なく-ja-soft-redirect-47DEQpj8",
      "tags": [
        "no-gloss"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "なく"
}

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    "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Japanese hiragana",
    "Japanese lemmas",
    "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
    "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
    "Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ない"
      },
      "expansion": "ない (nai)",
      "name": "ja-r"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "だ"
      },
      "expansion": "だ (da)",
      "name": "ja-r"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Regular adverbial form of ない (nai), when used as either a verb suffix or as the plain negative of the copula だ (da).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "naku",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "adverb"
      },
      "expansion": "なく • (naku)",
      "name": "ja-pos"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "adv",
  "related": [
    {
      "english": "to lose something",
      "roman": "nakusu",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "無",
          "な"
        ],
        [
          "亡",
          "な"
        ],
        [
          "失",
          "な"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "無くす, 亡くす, 失くす"
    },
    {
      "english": "even if not, even without",
      "roman": "nakutemo",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "無",
          "な"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "無くても"
    },
    {
      "english": "to lose something",
      "roman": "nakunasu",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "無",
          "な"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "無くなす"
    },
    {
      "roman": "nakunaru",
      "word": "無くなる: to disappear"
    },
    {
      "word": "to get lost"
    },
    {
      "word": "to run out"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "form_of": [
        {
          "extra": "nai",
          "word": "ない"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "adverbial or continuative form of ない (nai)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "ない",
          "ない#Japanese"
        ]
      ],
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        "adverbial",
        "continuative",
        "form-of"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "なく"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[na̠kɯ̟]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "なく"
}

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  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "soft-redirect",
  "redirects": [
    "泣く",
    "鳴く"
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "no-gloss"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "なく"
}

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  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
  "path": [
    "なく"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "adverb",
  "title": "なく",
  "trace": ""
}