ない
Nai
Usually written in kana.
無い (Nai) is a Japanese i-adjective meaning “nonexistent, not being (there), unowned, not had”.
Meanings
- i-adjectivenonexistent; not being (there)
- i-adjectiveunowned; not had; unpossessed
- i-adjectiveunique
- i-adjectivenot; impossible; won't happenas ...ことがない, etc.; indicates negation, inexperience, unnecessariness or impossibility
- i-adjective, auxiliary adjectivenotafter the conjunctive form of an adjective
- i-adjective, auxiliary adjectiveto not be; to have notafter the -te form of a verb
Examples
何かいいことないかな。
I wish something nice would happen.
これ以上は読む価値がない。
It's not worth reading any further.
話の接ぎ穂がなくて困った。
He found it very hard to keep the conversation going.
Sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR).