"絶望" meaning in Japanese

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Noun

IPA: [d͡ze̞t͡sɨᵝbo̞ː] Forms: 絶望 [canonical] (ruby: (ぜつ), (ぼう)), zetsubō [romanization], zetubau [romanization], ぜつばう [hiragana, historical]
Head templates: {{ja-noun|ぜつぼう|hhira=ぜつばう}} 絶(ぜつ)望(ぼう) • (zetsubō) ^(←ぜつばう (zetubau)?)
  1. despair; hopelessness
    Sense id: en-絶望-ja-noun-Nz7ALFYa Categories (other): Japanese verbs without transitivity Disambiguation of Japanese verbs without transitivity: 47 53

Verb

IPA: [d͡ze̞t͡sɨᵝbo̞ː]
Forms: 絶望する [canonical] (ruby: (ぜつ), (ぼう)), zetsubō suru [romanization], zetubau [romanization], 絶望し [stem] (ruby: (ぜつ), (ぼう)), 絶望した [past] (ruby: (ぜつ), (ぼう)), no-table-tags [table-tags], 絶望し [error-unrecognized-form], ぜつぼうし [error-unrecognized-form], zetsubō shi [error-unrecognized-form], 絶望する [error-unrecognized-form], ぜつぼうする [error-unrecognized-form], zetsubō suru [error-unrecognized-form], 絶望すれ [error-unrecognized-form], ぜつぼうすれ [error-unrecognized-form], zetsubō sure [error-unrecognized-form], 絶望せよ [error-unrecognized-form, imperative, literary], 絶望しろ [colloquial, error-unrecognized-form, imperative], ぜつぼうせよ [error-unrecognized-form, imperative, literary], ぜつぼうしろ [colloquial, error-unrecognized-form, imperative], zetsubō seyo [error-unrecognized-form, imperative, literary], zetsubō shiro [colloquial, error-unrecognized-form, imperative], 絶望される [passive], ぜつぼうされる [passive], zetsubō sareru [passive], 絶望させる [causative], 絶望さす [causative], ぜつぼうさせる [causative], ぜつぼうさす [causative], zetsubō saseru [causative], zetsubō sasu [causative], 絶望できる [potential], ぜつぼうできる [potential], zetsubō dekiru [potential], 絶望しよう [volitional], ぜつぼうしよう [volitional], zetsubō shiyō [volitional], 絶望しない [negative], ぜつぼうしない [negative], zetsubō shinai [negative], 絶望せず [continuative, negative], ぜつぼうせず [continuative, negative], zetsubō sezu [continuative, negative], 絶望します [formal], ぜつぼうします [formal], zetsubō shimasu [formal], 絶望した [perfective], ぜつぼうした [perfective], zetsubō shita [perfective], 絶望して [conjunctive], ぜつぼうして [conjunctive], zetsubō shite [conjunctive], 絶望すれば [conditional, hypothetical], ぜつぼうすれば [conditional, hypothetical], zetsubō sureba [conditional, hypothetical]
  1. to despair, to abandon, to lose all hope.
    Sense id: en-絶望-ja-verb-ekOPB1jR Categories (other): Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with redundant script codes, Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese links with redundant alt parameters, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations, Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys, Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys, Japanese verbs without transitivity Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 19 81 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant alt parameters: 16 84 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 6 94 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations: 15 85 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 16 84 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys: 17 83 Disambiguation of Japanese verbs without transitivity: 47 53

Inflected forms

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    {
      "form": "絶望",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "絶",
          "ぜつ"
        ],
        [
          "望",
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        ]
      ],
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "zetsubō",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "zetubau",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
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    },
    {
      "form": "ぜつばう",
      "roman": "zetubau",
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      "name": "ja-noun"
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "parents": [],
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "The last key to resurrecting the First Dragon… “despair”",
          "ref": "2007 October 20, Izawa, Hiroshi with Yamada, Kotaro, “第42話 父と子 [Chapter 42: Father and Son]”, in ファイアーエムブレム 覇者の剣 [Fire Emblem: Sword of Champions], Jump Remix edition, volume 5 (fiction), Tokyo: Shueisha, page 244",
          "roman": "Shisoryū o yomigaeraseru saigo no kagi, sore wa…“zetsubō”",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "第",
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            ],
            [
              "話",
              "わ"
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            [
              "父",
              "ちち"
            ],
            [
              "子",
              "こ"
            ],
            [
              "始",
              "し"
            ],
            [
              "祖",
              "そ"
            ],
            [
              "竜",
              "りゅう"
            ],
            [
              "甦",
              "よみがえ"
            ],
            [
              "最",
              "さい"
            ],
            [
              "後",
              "ご"
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            [
              "鍵",
              "かぎ"
            ],
            [
              "絶",
              "ぜつ"
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            [
              "望",
              "ぼう"
            ]
          ],
          "text": "始祖竜を甦らせる最後の鍵、それは…「絶望」"
        }
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      "other": "ぜつぼー"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[d͡ze̞t͡sɨᵝbo̞ː]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "絶望"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "絶望する",
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          "絶",
          "ぜつ"
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          "望",
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      "form": "zetsubō suru",
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      "form": "zetubau",
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    {
      "form": "絶望し",
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      "form": "絶望した",
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          "望",
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      "tags": [
        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ja-suru",
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      "form": "絶望し",
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        "error-unrecognized-form"
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    {
      "form": "ぜつぼうし",
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      "form": "zetsubō shi",
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      "form": "絶望する",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
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    {
      "form": "ぜつぼうする",
      "source": "conjugation",
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    {
      "form": "zetsubō suru",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
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    },
    {
      "form": "絶望すれ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
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    },
    {
      "form": "ぜつぼうすれ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "zetsubō sure",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "絶望せよ",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "imperative",
        "literary"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "絶望しろ",
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    {
      "form": "ぜつぼうせよ",
      "source": "conjugation",
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      "form": "ぜつぼうしろ",
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      "form": "zetsubō seyo",
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      "form": "zetsubō shiro",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "error-unrecognized-form",
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "絶望される",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "passive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ぜつぼうされる",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "passive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "zetsubō sareru",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "passive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "絶望させる",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "絶望さす",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ぜつぼうさせる",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ぜつぼうさす",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "zetsubō saseru",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "zetsubō sasu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "絶望できる",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "potential"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ぜつぼうできる",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "potential"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "zetsubō dekiru",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "potential"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "絶望しよう",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ぜつぼうしよう",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "zetsubō shiyō",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "絶望しない",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ぜつぼうしない",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "zetsubō shinai",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "絶望せず",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ぜつぼうせず",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "zetsubō sezu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "絶望します",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ぜつぼうします",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "zetsubō shimasu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "絶望した",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ぜつぼうした",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "zetsubō shita",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "絶望して",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ぜつぼうして",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "zetsubō shite",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "絶望すれば",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "hypothetical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ぜつぼうすれば",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "hypothetical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "zetsubō sureba",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "hypothetical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "kind": "other",
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        {
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        {
          "english": "The boy was frustrated with his future because he couldn’t afford to go to school. That was solved tonight.",
          "ref": "1988 July 30 [1983 December 25], Fujiko F. Fujio, “未来ドロボウ (未来ドロボウ) [The Future Thief]”, in ひとりぼっちの宇宙戦争 [The One-Man Cosmic War] (藤子不二雄少年SF短編集; 1), 16th edition, volume 1 (fiction), Tokyo: Shogakukan, page 118",
          "roman": "Ano ko ga jibun mirai ni zetsubō shita no wa shingaku mondai kara da. Sore ga kon’ya gyakutenshita.",
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              "来",
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            [
              "未",
              "み"
            ],
            [
              "来",
              "らい"
            ],
            [
              "未",
              "み"
            ],
            [
              "来",
              "らい"
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            [
              "問",
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            [
              "逆",
              "ぎゃく"
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            [
              "転",
              "てん"
            ]
          ],
          "text": "あの子が自分の未来に絶望したのは進学問題からだ。それが今夜逆転した。"
        }
      ],
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        "to despair, to abandon, to lose all hope."
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          "abandon",
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          "lose",
          "lose"
        ],
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          "hope",
          "hope"
        ]
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      "other": "ぜつぼー"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[d͡ze̞t͡sɨᵝbo̞ː]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "絶望"
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          "english": "The last key to resurrecting the First Dragon… “despair”",
          "ref": "2007 October 20, Izawa, Hiroshi with Yamada, Kotaro, “第42話 父と子 [Chapter 42: Father and Son]”, in ファイアーエムブレム 覇者の剣 [Fire Emblem: Sword of Champions], Jump Remix edition, volume 5 (fiction), Tokyo: Shueisha, page 244",
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              "絶",
              "ぜつ"
            ],
            [
              "望",
              "ぼう"
            ]
          ],
          "text": "始祖竜を甦らせる最後の鍵、それは…「絶望」"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "despair; hopelessness"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "despair",
          "despair"
        ],
        [
          "hopelessness",
          "hopelessness"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "ぜつぼー"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[d͡ze̞t͡sɨᵝbo̞ː]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "絶望"
}

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    "Japanese nouns",
    "Japanese suru verbs",
    "Japanese terms spelled with fifth grade kanji",
    "Japanese terms spelled with fourth grade kanji",
    "Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Japanese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
    "Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
    "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
    "Japanese terms written with two Han script characters",
    "Japanese verbs",
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    {
      "form": "絶望する",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "絶",
          "ぜつ"
        ],
        [
          "望",
          "ぼう"
        ]
      ],
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        "canonical"
      ]
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      "form": "zetsubō suru",
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        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "zetubau",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "絶望し",
      "roman": "zetsubō shi",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "絶",
          "ぜつ"
        ],
        [
          "望",
          "ぼう"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "絶望した",
      "roman": "zetsubō shita",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "絶",
          "ぜつ"
        ],
        [
          "望",
          "ぼう"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "conjugation",
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        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ja-suru",
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      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "絶望し",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ぜつぼうし",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "zetsubō shi",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "絶望する",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ぜつぼうする",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "zetsubō suru",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "絶望すれ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ぜつぼうすれ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "zetsubō sure",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "絶望せよ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form",
        "imperative",
        "literary"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "絶望しろ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "error-unrecognized-form",
        "imperative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ぜつぼうせよ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form",
        "imperative",
        "literary"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ぜつぼうしろ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "error-unrecognized-form",
        "imperative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "zetsubō seyo",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form",
        "imperative",
        "literary"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "zetsubō shiro",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "error-unrecognized-form",
        "imperative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "絶望される",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "passive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ぜつぼうされる",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "passive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "zetsubō sareru",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "passive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "絶望させる",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "絶望さす",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ぜつぼうさせる",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ぜつぼうさす",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "zetsubō saseru",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "zetsubō sasu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "絶望できる",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "potential"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ぜつぼうできる",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "potential"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "zetsubō dekiru",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "potential"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "絶望しよう",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ぜつぼうしよう",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "zetsubō shiyō",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "絶望しない",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ぜつぼうしない",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "zetsubō shinai",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "絶望せず",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ぜつぼうせず",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "zetsubō sezu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "絶望します",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ぜつぼうします",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "zetsubō shimasu",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "絶望した",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ぜつぼうした",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "zetsubō shita",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "絶望して",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ぜつぼうして",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "zetsubō shite",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "絶望すれば",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "hypothetical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ぜつぼうすれば",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "hypothetical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "zetsubō sureba",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "hypothetical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
        "Japanese terms with redundant script codes",
        "Japanese terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "The boy was frustrated with his future because he couldn’t afford to go to school. That was solved tonight.",
          "ref": "1988 July 30 [1983 December 25], Fujiko F. Fujio, “未来ドロボウ (未来ドロボウ) [The Future Thief]”, in ひとりぼっちの宇宙戦争 [The One-Man Cosmic War] (藤子不二雄少年SF短編集; 1), 16th edition, volume 1 (fiction), Tokyo: Shogakukan, page 118",
          "roman": "Ano ko ga jibun mirai ni zetsubō shita no wa shingaku mondai kara da. Sore ga kon’ya gyakutenshita.",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "未",
              "み"
            ],
            [
              "来",
              "らい"
            ],
            [
              "未",
              "み"
            ],
            [
              "来",
              "らい"
            ],
            [
              "未",
              "み"
            ],
            [
              "来",
              "らい"
            ],
            [
              "絶",
              "ぜつ"
            ],
            [
              "望",
              "ぼう"
            ],
            [
              "進",
              "しん"
            ],
            [
              "学",
              "がく"
            ],
            [
              "問",
              "もん"
            ],
            [
              "題",
              "だい"
            ],
            [
              "逆",
              "ぎゃく"
            ],
            [
              "転",
              "てん"
            ]
          ],
          "text": "あの子が自分の未来に絶望したのは進学問題からだ。それが今夜逆転した。"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to despair, to abandon, to lose all hope."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "despair",
          "despair"
        ],
        [
          "abandon",
          "abandon"
        ],
        [
          "lose",
          "lose"
        ],
        [
          "hope",
          "hope"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "ぜつぼー"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[d͡ze̞t͡sɨᵝbo̞ː]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "絶望"
}
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  "msg": "HTML tag <span> not properly closed",
  "path": [
    "絶望"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "絶望",
  "trace": "started on line 2, detected on line 2"
}

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  "path": [
    "絶望"
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  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "絶望",
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}

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  "called_from": "parser/304",
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  "path": [
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  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "絶望",
  "trace": "started on line 2, detected on line 2"
}

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  "path": [
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  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "絶望",
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}

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  "path": [
    "絶望"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "絶望",
  "trace": ""
}

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  "called_from": "inflection/735",
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  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "絶望",
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}

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  "path": [
    "絶望"
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  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "絶望",
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}

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  "called_from": "inflection/735",
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  "path": [
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  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "絶望",
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}

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