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Learn Hardcore Japanese: ～nai - negative form

Hardcore Japanese
/Lesson 16
/～nai

～nai

Word

～ない～nai

Meaning

negative form

Part of speech

verb suffix

Pronunciation

Course

Hardcore Japanese

Lesson

Usages of ～nai

母はは　は　私わたし　が　事故じこ　に　あわない　か　心配しんぱいして　います。haha wa watashi ga jiko ni awanai ka shinpaishite imasu.

My mother is worried that I might get into an accident.

Nihon-shiki romanizationwatasi ha tyuugoku kara kimasita

Hepburn romanizationwatashi wa chuugoku kara kimashita

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