受じゅ難なん

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受難する · noun or participle which takes 'suru'

Form	Positive	Negative
Dictionary	受じゅ難なんする	受じゅ難なんしない
Polite	受じゅ難なんします	受じゅ難なんしません
Past polite	受じゅ難なんしました	受じゅ難なんしませんでした
Past	受じゅ難なんした	受じゅ難なんしなかった
Te-form	受じゅ難なんして	受じゅ難なんしないで
Desire	受じゅ難なんしたい	受じゅ難なんしたくない
Potential	受じゅ難なんできる	受じゅ難なんできない
Passive	受じゅ難なんされる	受じゅ難なんされない
Causative	受じゅ難なんさせる	受じゅ難なんさせない
Causative passive	受じゅ難なんさせられる	受じゅ難なんさせられない
Volitional	受じゅ難なんしよう
Polite volitional	受じゅ難なんしましょう
Imperative	受じゅ難なんしろ	受じゅ難なんするな
Conditional	受じゅ難なんすれば	受じゅ難なんしなければ
Tara conditional	受じゅ難なんしたら	受じゅ難なんしなかったら

Meanings

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru'

suffering; ordeal; agony

General term for enduring severe hardship, pain, or a trying experience. Often used in serious or dramatic contexts.

彼かれは長ながい受じゅ難なんの末すえに、ようやく解かい放ほうされた。
After a long ordeal, he was finally set free.
戦せん争そう中ちゅうの市し民みんの受じゅ難なんを描えがいた映えい画がだ。
It's a film depicting the sufferings of civilians during the war.

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru'

Passion; crucifixion

Christianity

Specifically refers to the Passion of Christ in Christian contexts. Often used in phrases like キリストの受難.

教きょう会かいでキリストの受じゅ難なんを描えがいた絵えを見みた。
I saw a painting depicting the Passion of Christ at the church.

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Usage patterns

〈人ひと〉が受じゅ難なんに遭あうfor someone to encounter an ordeal/suffering
彼かれは若わかい頃ころ、大おおきな受じゅ難なんに遭あった。
He encountered a great ordeal in his youth.
キリストの受じゅ難なんthe Passion of Christ
教きょう会かいではキリストの受じゅ難なんについて説せっ教きょうが行おこなわれた。
A sermon about the Passion of Christ was given at the church.
受じゅ難なんの時じ代だいan era of suffering
戦せん後ごは多おおくの人ひと々びとにとって受じゅ難なんの時じ代だいだった。
The postwar period was an era of suffering for many people.
受じゅ難なんを経けい験けんするto experience an ordeal
彼かの女じょはその戦せん争そうで多おおくの受じゅ難なんを経けい験けんした。
She experienced much suffering during that war.

Kanji

受accept, undergo, answer (phone)
難difficult, impossible, trouble

Related words

苦く難なん sense 1
苦難 refers to general hardship or trials in life, while 受難 stresses passively enduring a specific severe ordeal, such as persecution or the Passion of Christ.
試し練れん sense 1
試練 frames hardship as a test that reveals or builds character, whereas 受難 emphasizes the suffering itself without that testing nuance.
苦くるしみN2sense 1
苦しみ is the everyday, general word for pain or suffering, while 受難 is more formal and often used for a specific, dramatic ordeal.
悲ひ劇げきN3sense 1
悲劇 describes a tragic event or story, while 受難 focuses on the suffering endured by a person within such circumstances.
パッション
受難 is the standard Japanese term for the Passion of Christ, used in religious contexts, whereas パッション in this sense is a more literary or foreign-flavored borrowing.

Don't confuse with

困こん難なんN3sense 1
困難 means difficulty in doing or achieving something, while 受難 means the actual suffering or ordeal one undergoes, so the two are easily confused but not interchangeable.

Word family

受じゅ難なん曲きょく
Passion music
受じゅ難なん者しゃ
martyr; sufferer

Etymology

Compound of 受 (ju, 'receive') and 難 (nan, 'difficulty, suffering'), literally meaning 'receiving suffering'. The Christian sense is a semantic loan from Western languages.