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不憫: poor, pitiful, piteous, pitiable | JLPT N1 Vocabulary | JLPTMatome

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不憫

JLPT N1Vocabulary

不憫(ふびん)

ふびん

poor, pitiful, piteous, pitiable

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Reading and meaning Adjective forms Example sentences Kanji in this lesson

Reading and meaning

Reading: ふびん
Romaji: fubin
Meaning: poor, pitiful, piteous, pitiable
Word type: na adjective

Adjective forms

Present: 不憫(ふびん)です
Present negative: 不憫(ふびん)ではありません
Past: 不憫(ふびん)でした
Past negative: 不憫(ふびん)ではありませんでした
Before a noun: 不憫(ふびん)な
Connective: 不憫(ふびん)で
Adverbial: 不憫(ふびん)に
Ba conditional: 不憫(ふびん)ならば
Nara conditional: 不憫(ふびん)なら
不憫(ふびん)ならば
Tara conditional: 不憫(ふびん)でしたら
Appearance: 不憫(ふびん)そうです
Change of state: 不憫(ふびん)になります
Excess: 不憫(ふびん)すぎます
Nominalized: 不憫(ふびん)さ

Present: 不憫(ふびん)だ
Present negative: 不憫(ふびん)じゃない
不憫(ふびん)ではない
Past: 不憫(ふびん)だった
Past negative: 不憫(ふびん)じゃなかった
不憫(ふびん)ではなかった
Before a noun: 不憫(ふびん)な
Connective: 不憫(ふびん)で
Adverbial: 不憫(ふびん)に
Ba conditional: 不憫(ふびん)ならば
Nara conditional: 不憫(ふびん)なら
不憫(ふびん)ならば
Tara conditional: 不憫(ふびん)だったら
Appearance: 不憫(ふびん)そうだ
Change of state: 不憫(ふびん)になる
Excess: 不憫(ふびん)すぎる
Nominalized: 不憫(ふびん)さ

Example sentences

FuriganaEnglish

誰(だれ)にも頼(たよ)れず働(はたら)く彼(かれ

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の

姿(す)

が

不憫(たがふびん)

でならない。

I cannot help but feel sorry for him, working without anyone to rely on.

親(おや)を失(うしな)った幼子(おさなご)の境遇(きょうぐう)が不憫(ふびん)である。

The circumstances of the orphaned child are pitiful.

夢(ゆめ)を諦(あきら)めざるを得(え)なかった彼(かれ)を不憫(ふびん)に思(おも)う。

I feel sorry for him, having been forced to give up his dream.

災害(さいがい)で住(す)まいを失(うしな)った老人(ろうじん)を不憫(ふびん)に思(おも)い、近所(きんじょ)の人々(ひとびと)は食料(しょくりょう)を届(とど)けた。

Feeling sorry for the elderly man who had lost his home in the disaster, the neighbors brought him food.

Kanji in this lesson

不negative, non-, bad, ugly, clumsyJLPT N3