Hanamaruhanamaru
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なく

泣く

to cry

naku

JLPT
N5
Frequency
#93

Meanings

  1. 1
    to cry; to shed tears; to weepv5kvi
  2. 2
    to suffer (from); to be troubled (by); to face hardshipv5kvi
  3. 3
    to accept (an unreasonable request, loss, etc.); to do reluctantly; to make sacrificesv5kvi

JMdict 1229840

In a sentence

なかないで泣かないでdon't cry

Don't cry

How it works

This is a gentle “don’t” request. 泣くなく (cry) first goes negative to 泣かないなかない (don’t cry), then takes the て (te-form) ending to become 泣かないでなかないで (please don’t cry). The pattern [verb-negative] + で ((don’t)) is the soft way to ask someone not to do something.

Written with

泣cry8 strokes