違い
ちがい
hepburn chigai
difference
Part of speech · noun
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Examples
- 二つの言葉の違いを教えてください。Please tell me the difference between the two words.
- 年齢の違いはあまり気になりません。The age difference does not really bother me.
Collocations
違いがある違いが分かる違いを知る大きな違い年齢の違い
Mnemonic
違い chigai — the noun form of the verb 違う (chigau, to differ, to be wrong). Verb stem + い nominalizes it. The kanji 違 means "to deviate." 違い is more colloquial than the Sino-Japanese 差 (sa) or 相違 (soui). The same 違 appears in 間違い (machigai, a mistake).
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How is the noun 違い formed?