Translation guide
The ability to withstand hardship, pain, or prolonged effort. In Japanese, this concept is expressed through words emphasizing patience, perseverance, stamina, and durability, depending on the context.
The ability to keep going despite difficulty, stress, or suffering, often with a focus on inner strength.
The most direct equivalent for 'endurance' as a virtue; implies patiently bearing hardship without complaint. Often used in formal or literary contexts.
Everyday word for putting up with something unpleasant; endurance through self-restraint. Very common in spoken Japanese.
It hurts, but I'll endure it.
I can't endure it anymore.
Patient endurance, often with a nuance of quietly bearing a long-term difficult situation. Slightly old-fashioned but still used.
Wait with patient endurance.
Literary verb meaning to bear and endure silently. Emphasizes stoic suffering.
Endure hardships stoically.
The ability to sustain prolonged physical effort; athletic or bodily endurance.
Physical endurance or stamina, especially in sports. Literally 'lasting power'.
Endurance is important for a marathon.
Loanword from English 'stamina'. Commonly used in casual and sports contexts.
Physical strength/energy; often overlaps with endurance in the sense of overall physical capacity.
The ability of something to withstand wear, pressure, or damage over time.
A race or contest testing how long someone or something can last.
我慢 (gaman) is the most common and casual, used for everyday annoyances or pain. 忍耐 (nintai) is more formal and implies a virtuous, long-term endurance. 辛抱 (shinbō) is similar to 忍耐 but often used for enduring a difficult life situation patiently.
Put up with the train delay.
One's endurance is tested.
Endure poverty patiently.
The loanword エンデュランス (endyuransu) is rarely used outside of specific sports or product names. It is not a natural translation for general endurance.
スタミナが切れた。
I ran out of endurance/stamina.
体力をつける。
Build up endurance/physical strength.
These shoes are durable and last long.
We did an endurance run in PE class.