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憎い

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Japanese

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Kanji in this term
にく
Grade: S
kun'yomi
Alternative spellings
憎い (kyūjitai)
悪い

Etymology

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From Old Japanese. Cognate with 憎む (nikumu, to hate), 難い (-nikui, difficult [to do], verb suffix).

Pronunciation

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  • Tokyo pitch accent of inflected forms of 憎い
Plain 憎い [nìkúꜜì]
Conjunctive 憎くて くて
くくて
[nìkúꜜkùtè]
[níꜜkùkùtè]
Continuative 憎く
くく
[nìkúꜜkù]
[níꜜkùkù]
Negative 憎くない くない
くくない
[nìkúꜜkù nàì]
[níꜜkùkù nàì]
Past 憎かった かった
くかった
[nìkúꜜkàttà]
[níꜜkùkàttà]
Negative past 憎くなかった くなかった
くくなかった
[nìkúꜜkù nàkàttà]
[níꜜkùkù nàkàttà]
Conditional 憎ければ ければ
くければ
[nìkúꜜkèrèbà]
[níꜜkùkèrèbà]
Terminal 憎い [nìkúꜜì]
Formal 憎いです いです [nìkúꜜì dèsù]

Adjective

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(にく) (nikui-i (adverbial (にく) (nikuku))

  1. hateful, detestable, abominable
    • Ise Monogatari (The Tales of Ise), late 800s to early 900s:
      されどにくゝはたあらざりけり。
      Saredo nikuku hata arazarikeri.
      But no one thought him dislikeable.
      → Note that the negative connotations have strengthened over time. The older meaning was milder, closer to dislikeable than the modern hateful.

Inflection

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Antonyms

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Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN