Hanamaruhanamaru

きらい

嫌い

dislike

kirai

JLPT
N5
Frequency
#2,427

Meanings

  1. 1
    disliked; hated; disagreeableadj-nan
  2. 2
    tendency; smack (of); touch (of)n
  3. 3
    distinction; discriminationn

JMdict 1257240

In a sentence

かが蚊がmosquitoきらい嫌いhate

I hate mosquitoes

How it works

(subject) points out (mosquito) as the subject — but with feeling words like 嫌いきらい (hate), Japanese marks the thing you dislike with (subject), not an object particle. So literally it’s closer to “mosquitoes are hateful (to me)”. No verb is needed; 嫌いきらい (hate) alone carries it.

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