中々

Japanese
Kanji in this term
中 中
なか
Grade: 1		 なか
Grade: 1
kun’yomi

Adverb

中々 (hiragana なかなか, rōmaji nakanaka)

  1. very, quite, considerably, rather
  2. by no means (with negative verb)
    • 1906, Natsume Sōseki, Botchan‎:
      :
      くだらないから、すぐ寝 (ね)たが、なかなか寝 (ね)られない。
      Kudaranai kara, sugu neta ga, nakanaka nerarenai.
      There was nothing doing, so I went to bed, but could not sleep.
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