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Japanese
Etymology 1
| For pronunciation and definitions of いけん – see the following entries.
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| 【異見】
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- different opinion
- objection
- have a differing opinion
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| (This term, いけん (iken), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)
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(The following entry is uncreated: 遺賢.)
Etymology 2
A shift from いけぬ (ikenu), the classical conjugation of modern いけない (ikenai).[1]
Pronunciation
Verb
いけん • (iken)
- (Chūgoku, Shikoku, Kansai) to be not good, bad, forbidden
- あの子はいけん。
- Ano ko wa iken.
- That kid is no good.
- (Chūgoku, Shikoku, Kansai) it's bad if, you must not, you should not... (used after a conditional such as ば (-ba) or と (to) or たら (-tara), or after a nominalized verb phrase ending in the て (-te) conjunctive conjugation and often the particle は (ha) or も (mo))
- お風呂入らないといけん。
- Ofuro hairanai to iken.
- It's bad if you don't take a bath.
- まだ食べてはいけんよ。
- Mada tabete wa iken yo.
- You really shouldn't eat yet.
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