Illustration: In a Japanese community playroom, a child tries to push a large rigid wooden ball into a transparent collection box through its small circular opening. The ball is visibly wider than the opening, and the box’s remaining sides are solid and closed. Several smaller wooden balls already rest inside.

JLPT N3na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

不ふ可か能のう

fukanou

impossible

Example sentences

それは不可能ふかのうでした。
That wasn’t possible.
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それはほとんど不可能ふかのうだ。
It is next to impossible.
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それをすることは不可能ふかのうだ。
It is impossible to do it.
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Kanji in 不可能

不negative; non-Onフ・ブ
可can; passableOnカ・コク
能ability; talentOnノウKunよく・あたう

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