"得ない" meaning in Japanese

See 得ない in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Suffix

Etymology: negative of 得る Head templates: {{ja-pos|suffix|えない|type=i}} 得(え)ない • (-enai) -i (adverbial 得(え)なく (-enaku)) Inflection templates: {{ja-adj-infl|adverbial=く|attributive=い|conditional=ければ|conjunctive=くて|continuative=く|degree=さ|formal=い です|formal_negative=く ない です|formal_negative_past=く なかった です|formal_past=かった です|hypothetical=けれ|imperative=かれ|imperfective=かろ|informal_negative=く ない|informal_negative_past=く なかった|informal_past=かった|kana=-えな|lemma=得な|provisional=かったら|terminal=い|volitional=かろう}} Forms: 得ない [canonical] (ruby: ()), -enai [romanization], 得なく [adverbial] (ruby: ()), no-table-tags [table-tags], 得なかろ [imperfective, stem], えなかろ [imperfective, stem], -enakaro [imperfective], 得なく [continuative, stem], えなく [continuative, stem], -enaku [continuative], 得ない [stem, terminative], えない [stem, terminative], -enai [terminative], 得ない [attributive, stem], えない [attributive, stem], -enai [attributive], 得なけれ [hypothetical, stem], えなけれ [hypothetical, stem], -enakere [hypothetical], 得なかれ [imperative, stem], えなかれ [imperative, stem], -enakare [imperative], 得なくない [informal, negative], えなくない [informal, negative], -enaku nai [informal, negative], 得なかった [informal, past], えなかった [informal, past], -enakatta [informal, past], 得なくなかった [informal, negative, past], えなくなかった [informal, negative, past], -enaku nakatta [informal, negative, past], 得ないです [formal], えないです [formal], -enai desu [formal], 得なくないです [formal, negative], えなくないです [formal, negative], -enaku nai desu [formal, negative], 得なかったです [formal, past], えなかったです [formal, past], -enakatta desu [formal, past], 得なくなかったです [formal, negative, past], えなくなかったです [formal, negative, past], -enaku nakatta desu [formal, negative, past], 得なくて [conjunctive], えなくて [conjunctive], -enakute [conjunctive], 得なければ [conditional], えなければ [conditional], -enakereba [conditional], 得なかったら [conditional, past], えなかったら [conditional, past], -enakattara [conditional, past], 得なかろう [volitional], えなかろう [volitional], -enakarō [volitional], 得なく [adverbial], えなく [adverbial], -enaku [adverbial], 得なさ [noun-from-adj], えなさ [noun-from-adj], -enasa [noun-from-adj]
  1. cannot Tags: morpheme
{
  "etymology_text": "negative of 得る",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "得ない",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "得",
          "え"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-enai",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "得なく",
      "roman": "-enaku",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "得",
          "え"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ja-i",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "得なかろ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "えなかろ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-enakaro",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "得なく",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "えなく",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-enaku",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "得ない",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "stem",
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "えない",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "stem",
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-enai",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "得ない",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "えない",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-enai",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "得なけれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "hypothetical",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "えなけれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "hypothetical",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-enakere",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "hypothetical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "得なかれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "えなかれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-enakare",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "得なくない",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "えなくない",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-enaku nai",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "得なかった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "えなかった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-enakatta",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "得なくなかった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "えなくなかった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-enaku nakatta",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "得ないです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "えないです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-enai desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "得なくないです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "えなくないです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-enaku nai desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "得なかったです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "えなかったです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-enakatta desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "得なくなかったです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "えなくなかったです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-enaku nakatta desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "得なくて",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "えなくて",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-enakute",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "得なければ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "えなければ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-enakereba",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "得なかったら",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "えなかったら",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-enakattara",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "得なかろう",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "えなかろう",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-enakarō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "得なく",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "えなく",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-enaku",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "得なさ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-adj"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "えなさ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-adj"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-enasa",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-adj"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "suffix",
        "2": "えない",
        "type": "i"
      },
      "expansion": "得(え)ない • (-enai) -i (adverbial 得(え)なく (-enaku))",
      "name": "ja-pos"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "adverbial": "く",
        "attributive": "い",
        "conditional": "ければ",
        "conjunctive": "くて",
        "continuative": "く",
        "degree": "さ",
        "formal": "い です",
        "formal_negative": "く ない です",
        "formal_negative_past": "く なかった です",
        "formal_past": "かった です",
        "hypothetical": "けれ",
        "imperative": "かれ",
        "imperfective": "かろ",
        "informal_negative": "く ない",
        "informal_negative_past": "く なかった",
        "informal_past": "かった",
        "kana": "-えな",
        "lemma": "得な",
        "provisional": "かったら",
        "terminal": "い",
        "volitional": "かろう"
      },
      "name": "ja-adj-infl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "suffix",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with manual fragments",
          "parents": [
            "Links with manual fragments",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
          "parents": [
            "Links with redundant wikilinks",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with 1 kanji",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "cannot"
      ],
      "id": "en-得ない-ja-suffix-mkO22sRm",
      "links": [
        [
          "cannot",
          "cannot"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "得ない"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "negative of 得る",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "得ない",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "得",
          "え"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-enai",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "得なく",
      "roman": "-enaku",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "得",
          "え"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ja-i",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "得なかろ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "えなかろ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-enakaro",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "得なく",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "えなく",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-enaku",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "得ない",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "stem",
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "えない",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "stem",
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-enai",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "得ない",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "えない",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-enai",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "得なけれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "hypothetical",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "えなけれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "hypothetical",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-enakere",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "hypothetical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "得なかれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "えなかれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-enakare",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "得なくない",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "えなくない",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-enaku nai",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "得なかった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "えなかった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-enakatta",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "得なくなかった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "えなくなかった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-enaku nakatta",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "得ないです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "えないです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-enai desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "得なくないです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "えなくないです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-enaku nai desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "得なかったです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "えなかったです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-enakatta desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "得なくなかったです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "えなくなかったです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-enaku nakatta desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "得なくて",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "えなくて",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-enakute",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "得なければ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "えなければ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-enakereba",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "得なかったら",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "えなかったら",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-enakattara",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "得なかろう",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "えなかろう",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-enakarō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "得なく",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "えなく",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-enaku",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "得なさ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-adj"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "えなさ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-adj"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-enasa",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-adj"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "suffix",
        "2": "えない",
        "type": "i"
      },
      "expansion": "得(え)ない • (-enai) -i (adverbial 得(え)なく (-enaku))",
      "name": "ja-pos"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "adverbial": "く",
        "attributive": "い",
        "conditional": "ければ",
        "conjunctive": "くて",
        "continuative": "く",
        "degree": "さ",
        "formal": "い です",
        "formal_negative": "く ない です",
        "formal_negative_past": "く なかった です",
        "formal_past": "かった です",
        "hypothetical": "けれ",
        "imperative": "かれ",
        "imperfective": "かろ",
        "informal_negative": "く ない",
        "informal_negative_past": "く なかった",
        "informal_past": "かった",
        "kana": "-えな",
        "lemma": "得な",
        "provisional": "かったら",
        "terminal": "い",
        "volitional": "かろう"
      },
      "name": "ja-adj-infl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "suffix",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
        "Japanese lemmas",
        "Japanese links with manual fragments",
        "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
        "Japanese suffixes",
        "Japanese terms spelled with fifth grade kanji",
        "Japanese terms with 1 kanji",
        "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "cannot"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "cannot",
          "cannot"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "morpheme"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "得ない"
}

Download raw JSONL data for 得ない meaning in Japanese (6.2kB)

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  "called_from": "parser/1336",
  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
  "path": [
    "得ない"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "suffix",
  "title": "得ない",
  "trace": ""
}

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