"全然" meaning in Japanese

See 全然 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adverb

IPA: [d͡zẽ̞nd͡zẽ̞ɴ] Forms: 全然 [canonical] (ruby: (ぜん), (ぜん)), zenzen [romanization]
Etymology: Borrowed from written Chinese 全然 (quánrán) in the early 1800s from 白話小説 (hakuwa shōsetsu, literally “white-speech novels”), a genre using more colloquial styles, initially with furigana indicating a reading of まったく (mattaku, “completely”). First cited to a text from 1823, with the ぜんぜん (zenzen) reading became more common starting from the late 1890s. Etymology templates: {{bor|ja|zh|全然}} Chinese 全然 (quánrán), {{m|ja|白話小説|lit=white-speech novels|tr=hakuwa shōsetsu}} 白話小説 (hakuwa shōsetsu, literally “white-speech novels”), {{ja-r|まったく||completely}} まったく (mattaku, “completely”), {{ja-r|ぜんぜん}} ぜんぜん (zenzen) Head templates: {{ja-pos|adverb|ぜんぜん}} 全(ぜん)然(ぜん) • (zenzen)
  1. (not) at all (with negative verb) Synonyms: いっちょん
    Sense id: en-全然-ja-adv-b2qVG~f4 Categories (other): Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with redundant script codes, Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese entries with language name categories using raw markup, Japanese links with redundant alt parameters, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese negative polarity items, Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys, Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys, Pages with raw sortkeys Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 97 3 Disambiguation of Japanese entries with language name categories using raw markup: 97 3 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant alt parameters: 96 4 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 98 2 Disambiguation of Japanese negative polarity items: 93 7 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 93 7 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys: 97 3 Disambiguation of Pages with raw sortkeys: 87 13
  2. (colloquial) totally, completely (with affirmative verb) Tags: colloquial Synonyms: 全く, 非常に, とても
    Sense id: en-全然-ja-adv-M7C4Yymv
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: 全っ然 (zenzzen) (ruby: (ぜん), (ぜん)) [emphatic] Related terms: 余り: very often (amari) (english: with negative verbs), all that much, 時々 (tokidoki) (ruby: (とき), (どき)) (english: sometimes, at times, occasionally)

Download JSON data for 全然 meaning in Japanese (5.6kB)

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