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因縁をつける (いんねんをつける) Japanese meaning | Kotomora

因いん縁ねんをつける

Meanings

1

expression, ichidan verb

pick a fight; invent a pretext for a quarrel

Used when someone deliberately creates a reason to start a fight or argument, often with a false or trivial excuse.

酔よっ払ぱらいが通つう行こう人にんに因いん縁ねんをつけてきた。
A drunk picked a fight with a passerby.
彼かれ

は

些さ

細さい

な

こと

で

いつも

因いん

縁ねん

を

つける

。

He always picks a fight over trivial things.

Written forms

因いん縁ねんをつける
Standard kanji spelling for this expression.
因いん縁ねんを付つける
Variant kanji spelling using 付ける; equally valid.

Kanji

因cause, factor, be associated with
縁affinity, relation, connection
付adhere, attach, refer to

Similar words

喧けん嘩かを売うる
喧嘩を売る is more direct and aggressive, meaning to provoke a fight openly, while 因縁をつける emphasizes fabricating a reason or pretext.

Etymology

因縁 (いんねん) originally means 'fate' or 'connection' from a previous life, but in this expression it refers to a false pretext. つける means 'to attach', so the phrase literally means 'to attach a false pretext'.