Illustration: At a Japanese home's low dining table, a parent points first toward an empty biscuit plate and then toward a child. The child responds with an emphatic sideways head shake, both palms raised outward and eyebrows lifted in earnest protest. Their hands and mouth are clean.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

否ひ定てい

hitei

denial

Example sentences

その事実じじつは否定ひていできない。
The fact cannot be denied.
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彼かれは噂うわさを否定ひていした。
He denied the rumor.
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彼かれはそれをしたことを否定ひていした。
He denied having done it.
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Kanji in 否定

否negate; noOnヒKunいな・いや
定determine; fixOnテイ・ジョウKunさだめる・さだまる・さだか

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