忙しない

Japanese

Kanji in this term
せわ
Grade: S
kun'yomi

Etymology

From the stem of the adjective (せわ)しい (sewashii, busy, hurried, restless) and the suffix ない (nai, having that quality).

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) わしな [sèwáshínáꜜì] (Nakadaka – [4])[1]
  • IPA(key): [se̞β̞a̠ɕina̠i]

Adjective

(せわ)しない • (sewashinaiせはしない (sefasinai)?-i (adverbial (せわ)しなく (sewashinaku))

  1. busy; hurried
  2. restless; fidgety

Inflection

Synonyms

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN