必然|ひつぜんhitsuzen[0]heiban (flat)
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Definitions
- no-adjective, na-adjectiveinevitable; necessary; certain; sure
- nouninevitability; necessity
Conjugation
| Plain form | 必然（ひつぜん） |
|---|---|
| Polite (desu) | 必然です（ひつぜんです） |
| Negative (dewa nai) | 必然ではない（ひつぜんではない） |
| polite (dewa arimasen) | 必然ではありません（ひつぜんではありません） |
| Past (datta) | 必然だった（ひつぜんだった） |
| Past negative (dewa nakatta) | 必然ではなかった（ひつぜんではなかった） |
| Te form (de) | 必然で（ひつぜんで） |
| Adverbial (ni) | 必然に（ひつぜんに） |
| Conditional (nara) | 必然なら（ひつぜんなら） |
Common forms generated by rule; see the senses for honorific or irregular usage.
Synonyms & antonyms
- Antonym偶然ぐうぜんWrittenAntonym of 必然, stressing that an event arises from chance or coincidence rather than from necessity. Literary in register; used of chance encounters and other unplanned happenings.
Choose 必然 for outcomes that follow inevitably from causes, logic, or circumstances, and 偶然, its literary antonym, for events that occur by chance, with no necessity behind them.
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Japanese definitions
- 必ずそのようになること。
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