suffix:

• (strongly emphatic) too preoccupied or busy to even think of ...; ... is out of the question; this is not an occasion for

expression:

• don't believe everything you hear; seeing is believing; to have heard of is not to have seen - proverb

expression / noun:

• car accident for which one is not responsible; car accident where the other side is at fault

expression:

• there is unexpected good in what others have left behind; last but not least; there is fortune in leftovers [literal] - proverb ➜ 残り物に福がある【のこりものにふくがある】

expression:

• there is unexpected good in what others have left behind; last but not least; there is fortune in leftovers [literal] - proverb

expression:

• there is unexpected good in what others have left behind; last but not least; there is fortune in leftovers [literal] - proverb ➜ 残り物には福がある【のこりものにはふくがある】

expression:

• it is not as such; it does not seem as such - archaism
• it should not be as such

expression / godan ~う verb:

• to err and not change one's ways, this is what it is to err (from Analects of Confucius)

expression:

• rejecting the advances of women is a man's shame; shameful is he who spurns a woman's invitation; not eating the meal set before him is a man's shame [literal] - proverb ➜ 据え膳【すえぜん】

noun / ~の noun:

• sacred precincts; sanctuary; consecrated ground; holy ground

noun:

• issue that is regarded as being off-limits; matter that is not up for discussion

expression:

• if it is not ...; if it does not ... - after the -nai stem of a verb; ずは is now pronounced ずわ - archaism

expression:

• he has not lived that lives not after death; the great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it - proverb

expression:

• it is none of one's business; it is not one's place to say (do) something - idiom

expression:

• if it is not ...; if it does not ... - after the -nai stem of a verb, usu. accompanied by まい, esp. as 〜ざあなるまい ➜ まい

expression / adjective:

• it is no exaggeration to say; it is not too much to say

expression:

• man is not made of stone; man is made of flesh and blood - proverb

noun / adjectival noun:

• blank; blank space

noun:

• gap; time spent not doing something (e.g. working, practicing)

auxiliary:

• not - from 〜ずあり; used after a -nai stem - archaism

expression:

• is; are - from 〜ぞあり; usu. as 〜にざりける

adjectival noun / noun:

• serious; not joking; straight - colloquialism - abbreviation ➜ 真面目【まじめ】

auxiliary verb:

• cannot; should not; will not; must not ［まじ］ ➜ まい

adverb / conjunction:

• not so; not particularly; not very; not that much

expression:

• it does not mean that ...; I don't mean that ...; it is not the case that... ➜ 訳【わけ】

expression:

• it does not mean that ...; I don't mean that ...; it is not the case that ➜ 訳ではない

noun:

• incessant working; working non-stop

noun:

• awareness that somebody will be hard to deal with; awareness that one is not good at something; (feeling) not up to doing something

adverb:

• not always; not necessarily; not all; not entirely - used with neg. verb