Results, misfortune

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災いを転じて福となす【わざわいをてんじてふくとなすwazawaiwotenjitefukutonasu】禍を転じて福となす・禍を転じて福と為す・災いを転じて福と為す Inflection

expression / godan ~す verb:

難を逃れる【なんをのがれるnanwonogareru】難をのがれる Inflection

expression / ichidan verb:

  • to avoid misfortune; to escape danger
禍福は糾える縄のごとし【かふくはあざなえるなわのごとしkafukuhaazanaerunawanogotoshi】禍福は糾える縄の如し・禍福はあざなえる縄のごとし・禍福はあざなえる縄の如し

expression:

  • fortune and misfortune are intertwined; fortune and misfortune come by turns; good luck and bad luck alternate (like the strands of a rope); good and bad fortune are next-door neighbours
禍源【かげんkagen】

noun:

  • source of misfortune
槍が降っても【やりがふってもyarigafuttemo】

expression:

禍福【かふくkafuku】

noun:

  • fortune and misfortune; prosperity and adversity; good and evil; weal and woe

禍福kafukuはha糾えるazanaeru縄nawaのno如しgotoshi。 When an ill wind blows it does good to no one.

奇禍【きかkika】

noun:

  • unforeseen misfortune
通り物【とおりものtoorimono】通物irr.

noun:

  • demon who brings misfortune to houses or people he passes by ➜ 通り魔
苦厄【くやくkuyaku】

noun:

  • hardship and misfortune - Buddhism term
踏んだり蹴ったり【ふんだりけったりfundarikettari】

expression:

  • having one misfortune after another; insult to injury - idiom
天児【あまがつamagatsu】天倪

noun:

  • doll onto which a child's misfortune is transferred - archaism
災い転じて福となす【わざわいてんじてふくとなすwazawaitenjitefukutonasu】禍転じて福となす・災い転じて福と為す・禍転じて福と為す Inflection

expression / godan ~す verb:

  • to turn misfortune into fortune (esp. through one's own efforts); to turn the potential disaster to one's advantage - idiom
厄除け【やくよけyakuyoke】厄よけ・厄除irr.

noun:

  • warding off evil; protecting against misfortune
不遇時代【ふぐうじだいfuguujidai】

noun:

  • one's dark days; the period during which one suffered misfortune and obscurity - four character idiom
大厄【たいやくtaiyaku】

noun:

  • calamity; disaster; great misfortune; grand climacteric
不幸中の幸い【ふこうちゅうのさいわいfukouchuunosaiwai】

expression:

  • small mercy (from some misfortune); silver lining of a dark cloud; consolation in sadness; blessing in disguise
打ちひしぐ【うちひしぐuchihishigu】打ち拉ぐ Inflection

godan ~ぐ verb / transitive:

  • to crush (with the weight of misfortune)
呪う【まじなうmajinau】 Inflection

godan ~う verb:

  • to pray that one avoids disaster or illness; to pray - archaism
  • to pray for the death or misfortune of another; to curse
  • to treat illness with prayer
通り魔☆【とおりまtoorima】

noun:

  • random attacker, e.g. person who randomly attacks people on the street; slasher
  • demon who brings misfortune to houses or people he passes by - original meaning

通り魔toorima事件jikenでde母子boshi3人ninがga刺殺さsashikorosaれreたta。 A mother and her two children were stabbed to death in a slasher incident.

JLPTN2
見舞う★【みまうmimau】 Inflection

godan ~う verb / transitive:

  • to ask after (someone's health); to visit
  • to attack; to strike; to meet with misfortune; to suffer an attack

病気のbyoukino母hahaをwo見舞うmimauためにtameni帰郷kikyouしshiなければならないnakerebanaranaiとtoいったitta話hanashiをwoでっちあげたdetchiageta。 I'd made up some story about having to go home to see my sick mother.

JLPTN5
降る☆【ふるfuru】 Inflection

godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:

  • to fall (of rain, snow, ash, etc.); to come down
  • to form (of frost)
  • to beam down (of sunlight or moonlight); to pour in
  • to visit (of luck, misfortune, etc.); to come; to arrive

シカゴSHIKAGOのnoあたりatariでdeはha雨ameがga降っていましたfutteimashita。 It was raining around Chicago.

雨ameがga降っているfutteiru。 It's raining.

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