Illustration: At a Japanese kitchen counter, a home cook waits eagerly for a friend's reaction to an unusual homemade dessert. The friend holds a spoon after one taste, eyes widened with a complicated mixture of wonder and confusion.

JLPT N2expressionLevel estimated by Bebop

言いいようがない

iiyou ga nai

indescribable, hard to put into words

Example sentences

  1. すごいとしか言いいようがない。

    All I can say is, amazing.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 彼かれがしたことは狂気きょうきの沙汰さたとしか言いいようがなかった。

    What he did was nothing less than madness.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. もともとの設定せっていは「夜よる」だったが、どう考かんがえても「昼ひる」としか言いいようがない科白せりふも出でてくる。

    The original setting was “night,” but some lines, however you look at them, can only be described as daytime dialogue.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 言

  • 言say; wordOnゲン・ゴンKunいう・こと

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