予感

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
予 感
よ
Grade: 3 		かん
Grade: 3
on'yomi
Alternative spelling
豫感 (kyūjitai)

Pronunciation

Noun

予(よ)感(かん) • (yokan) 

  1. prescience, premonition, hunch
    いい予感(よかん)がする。
    Ii yokan ga suru.
    Something is telling me that things are going to get better.
    嫌(いや)な予感(よかん)がする。
    Iya na yokan ga suru.
    I have a bad feeling about this.
  2. foreboding

Verb

予(よ)感(かん)する • (yokan suru) suru (stem 予(よ)感(かん)し (yokan shi), past 予(よ)感(かん)した (yokan shita))

  1. have a feeling, hunch, premonition
  2. have a foreboding

Conjugation

Conjugation of "予感する" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)
Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective") 予感し よかんし yokan shi
Ren’yōkei ("continuative") 予感し よかんし yokan shi
Shūshikei ("terminal") 予感する よかんする yokan suru
Rentaikei ("attributive") 予感する よかんする yokan suru
Kateikei ("hypothetical") 予感すれ よかんすれ yokan sure
Meireikei ("imperative") 予感せよ¹
予感しろ² 		よかんせよ¹
よかんしろ² 		yokan seyo¹
yokan shiro²
Key constructions
Passive 予感される よかんされる yokan sareru
Causative 予感させる
予感さす 		よかんさせる
よかんさす 		yokan saseru
yokan sasu
Potential 予感できる よかんできる yokan dekiru
Volitional 予感しよう よかんしよう yokan shiyō
Negative 予感しない よかんしない yokan shinai
Negative continuative 予感せず よかんせず yokan sezu
Formal 予感します よかんします yokan shimasu
Perfective 予感した よかんした yokan shita
Conjunctive 予感して よかんして yokan shite
Hypothetical conditional 予感すれば よかんすれば yokan sureba
¹ Written imperative

² Spoken imperative

References

  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.
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