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せずに (sezuni) Japanese meaning: without doing | Kotomora
じ 字 Furigana
Expressions 区く 別べつ せずに without distinction; indiscriminately Related words ずに is the general negative continuative form usable with most verbs, while せずに is the special form used only after する and verbal nouns like 確認する.
せずに is the everyday expanded form ending in に, while せず alone is slightly more clipped and literary but means the same thing.
Etymology Formed from the negative continuative pattern ずに with せ, the classical negative base associated with する; now used as a fixed adverbial expression meaning 'without doing.'
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部屋へや
を
出で
た
。
He left the room without replying.
何なに もせずに 〈 動どう 詞し 〉 to do something without doing anything (at all)
She sat there all day without doing anything.