See 覚束ない in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "覚束ない",
"ruby": [
[
"覚",
"おぼ"
],
[
"束",
"つか"
]
],
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "obotsukanai",
"tags": [
"romanization"
]
},
{
"form": "覚束なく",
"roman": "obotsukanaku",
"ruby": [
[
"覚",
"おぼ"
],
[
"束",
"つか"
]
],
"tags": [
"adverbial"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "ja-i",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "覚束なかろ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"imperfective",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "おぼつかなかろ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"imperfective",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "obotsukanakaro",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
]
},
{
"form": "覚束なく",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"continuative",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "おぼつかなく",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"continuative",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "obotsukanaku",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"continuative"
]
},
{
"form": "覚束ない",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"stem",
"terminative"
]
},
{
"form": "おぼつかない",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"stem",
"terminative"
]
},
{
"form": "obotsukanai",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"terminative"
]
},
{
"form": "覚束ない",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"attributive",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "おぼつかない",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"attributive",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "obotsukanai",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"attributive"
]
},
{
"form": "覚束なけれ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"hypothetical",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "おぼつかなけれ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"hypothetical",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "obotsukanakere",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"hypothetical"
]
},
{
"form": "覚束なかれ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "おぼつかなかれ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "obotsukanakare",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"imperative"
]
},
{
"form": "覚束なくない",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "おぼつかなくない",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "obotsukanaku nai",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "覚束なかった",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "おぼつかなかった",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "obotsukanakatta",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "覚束なくなかった",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "おぼつかなくなかった",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "obotsukanaku nakatta",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "覚束ないです",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal"
]
},
{
"form": "おぼつかないです",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal"
]
},
{
"form": "obotsukanai desu",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal"
]
},
{
"form": "覚束なくないです",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "おぼつかなくないです",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "obotsukanaku nai desu",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "覚束なかったです",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "おぼつかなかったです",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "obotsukanakatta desu",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "覚束なくなかったです",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "おぼつかなくなかったです",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "obotsukanaku nakatta desu",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "覚束なくて",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "おぼつかなくて",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "obotsukanakute",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "覚束なければ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conditional"
]
},
{
"form": "おぼつかなければ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conditional"
]
},
{
"form": "obotsukanakereba",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conditional"
]
},
{
"form": "覚束なかったら",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conditional",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "おぼつかなかったら",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conditional",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "obotsukanakattara",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conditional",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "覚束なかろう",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"volitional"
]
},
{
"form": "おぼつかなかろう",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"volitional"
]
},
{
"form": "obotsukanakarō",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"volitional"
]
},
{
"form": "覚束なく",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"adverbial"
]
},
{
"form": "おぼつかなく",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"adverbial"
]
},
{
"form": "obotsukanaku",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"adverbial"
]
},
{
"form": "覚束なさ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"noun-from-adj"
]
},
{
"form": "おぼつかなさ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"noun-from-adj"
]
},
{
"form": "obotsukanasa",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"noun-from-adj"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "おぼつかない",
"infl": "i"
},
"expansion": "覚(おぼ)束(つか)ない • (obotsukanai) -i (adverbial 覚(おぼ)束(つか)なく (obotsukanaku))",
"name": "ja-adj"
}
],
"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": "おぼつかな",
"lemma": "覚束な",
"provisional": "かったら",
"terminal": "い",
"volitional": "かろう"
},
"name": "ja-adj-infl"
}
],
"lang": "Japanese",
"lang_code": "ja",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "54 46",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "54 46",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese links with manual fragments",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "55 45",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "55 45",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "55 45",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese terms with 2 kanji",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "64 36",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese terms with Heiban pitch accent (Tōkyō)",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "64 36",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese terms with Nakadaka pitch accent (Tōkyō)",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "55 45",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "55 45",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "50 50",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"uncertain; unclear; hazy"
],
"id": "en-覚束ない-ja-adj-P7M0YvGq",
"links": [
[
"uncertain",
"uncertain"
],
[
"unclear",
"unclear"
],
[
"hazy",
"hazy"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "54 46",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "54 46",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese links with manual fragments",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "55 45",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "55 45",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "55 45",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese terms with 2 kanji",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "55 45",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "55 45",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "50 50",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_english_offsets": [
[
0,
8
]
],
"bold_roman_offsets": [
[
0,
11
]
],
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
0,
4
]
],
"english": "unsteady gait",
"roman": "obotsukanai ashidori",
"ruby": [
[
"覚束",
"おぼつか"
],
[
"足取",
"あしど"
]
],
"text": "覚束ない足取り",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"unreliable; unsteady"
],
"id": "en-覚束ない-ja-adj-vbaUU~TG",
"links": [
[
"unreliable",
"unreliable"
],
[
"unsteady",
"unsteady"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"other": "おぼつかない"
},
{
"other": "おぼつかない"
},
{
"ipa": "[o̞bo̞t͡sɨka̠na̠i]"
}
],
"word": "覚束ない"
}
{
"categories": [
"Japanese adjectives",
"Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
"Japanese lemmas",
"Japanese links with manual fragments",
"Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
"Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
"Japanese terms spelled with fourth grade kanji",
"Japanese terms with 2 kanji",
"Japanese terms with Heiban pitch accent (Tōkyō)",
"Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Japanese terms with Nakadaka pitch accent (Tōkyō)",
"Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
"Japanese い-i adjectives",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"forms": [
{
"form": "覚束ない",
"ruby": [
[
"覚",
"おぼ"
],
[
"束",
"つか"
]
],
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "obotsukanai",
"tags": [
"romanization"
]
},
{
"form": "覚束なく",
"roman": "obotsukanaku",
"ruby": [
[
"覚",
"おぼ"
],
[
"束",
"つか"
]
],
"tags": [
"adverbial"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "ja-i",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "覚束なかろ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"imperfective",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "おぼつかなかろ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"imperfective",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "obotsukanakaro",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
]
},
{
"form": "覚束なく",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"continuative",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "おぼつかなく",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"continuative",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "obotsukanaku",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"continuative"
]
},
{
"form": "覚束ない",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"stem",
"terminative"
]
},
{
"form": "おぼつかない",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"stem",
"terminative"
]
},
{
"form": "obotsukanai",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"terminative"
]
},
{
"form": "覚束ない",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"attributive",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "おぼつかない",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"attributive",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "obotsukanai",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"attributive"
]
},
{
"form": "覚束なけれ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"hypothetical",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "おぼつかなけれ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"hypothetical",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "obotsukanakere",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"hypothetical"
]
},
{
"form": "覚束なかれ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "おぼつかなかれ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "obotsukanakare",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"imperative"
]
},
{
"form": "覚束なくない",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "おぼつかなくない",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "obotsukanaku nai",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "覚束なかった",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "おぼつかなかった",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "obotsukanakatta",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "覚束なくなかった",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "おぼつかなくなかった",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "obotsukanaku nakatta",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "覚束ないです",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal"
]
},
{
"form": "おぼつかないです",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal"
]
},
{
"form": "obotsukanai desu",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal"
]
},
{
"form": "覚束なくないです",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "おぼつかなくないです",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "obotsukanaku nai desu",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "覚束なかったです",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "おぼつかなかったです",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "obotsukanakatta desu",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "覚束なくなかったです",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "おぼつかなくなかったです",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "obotsukanaku nakatta desu",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "覚束なくて",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "おぼつかなくて",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "obotsukanakute",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "覚束なければ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conditional"
]
},
{
"form": "おぼつかなければ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conditional"
]
},
{
"form": "obotsukanakereba",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conditional"
]
},
{
"form": "覚束なかったら",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conditional",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "おぼつかなかったら",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conditional",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "obotsukanakattara",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conditional",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "覚束なかろう",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"volitional"
]
},
{
"form": "おぼつかなかろう",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"volitional"
]
},
{
"form": "obotsukanakarō",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"volitional"
]
},
{
"form": "覚束なく",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"adverbial"
]
},
{
"form": "おぼつかなく",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"adverbial"
]
},
{
"form": "obotsukanaku",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"adverbial"
]
},
{
"form": "覚束なさ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"noun-from-adj"
]
},
{
"form": "おぼつかなさ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"noun-from-adj"
]
},
{
"form": "obotsukanasa",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"noun-from-adj"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "おぼつかない",
"infl": "i"
},
"expansion": "覚(おぼ)束(つか)ない • (obotsukanai) -i (adverbial 覚(おぼ)束(つか)なく (obotsukanaku))",
"name": "ja-adj"
}
],
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"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": "おぼつかな",
"lemma": "覚束な",
"provisional": "かったら",
"terminal": "い",
"volitional": "かろう"
},
"name": "ja-adj-infl"
}
],
"lang": "Japanese",
"lang_code": "ja",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"uncertain; unclear; hazy"
],
"links": [
[
"uncertain",
"uncertain"
],
[
"unclear",
"unclear"
],
[
"hazy",
"hazy"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Japanese terms with usage examples"
],
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"english": "unsteady gait",
"roman": "obotsukanai ashidori",
"ruby": [
[
"覚束",
"おぼつか"
],
[
"足取",
"あしど"
]
],
"text": "覚束ない足取り",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"unreliable; unsteady"
],
"links": [
[
"unreliable",
"unreliable"
],
[
"unsteady",
"unsteady"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"other": "おぼつかない"
},
{
"other": "おぼつかない"
},
{
"ipa": "[o̞bo̞t͡sɨka̠na̠i]"
}
],
"word": "覚束ない"
}
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