我慢 (がまん, gaman) Japanese meaning: endurance | Kotomora

我が慢まん

が

ま

ん

Common wordJLPTN3Freq.FrequencyTop 2,000

我慢する · noun or participle which takes 'suru'

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

Meanings

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', transitive verb, intransitive verb

endurance; patience; perseverance

Bearing hardship, pain, or annoyance without complaint; often implies a conscious effort to tolerate something unpleasant.

痛いた

Kanji

我ego, I, selfish
慢ridicule, laziness

Related words· 12

辛しん抱ぼうN2sense 1
辛抱 stresses long-term perseverance through hardship with a positive attitude, while 我慢 more often means simply tolerating an immediate discomfort or urge.
忍にん耐たいN1sense 1
忍耐 is a formal, somewhat literary word for patience and endurance, whereas 我慢 is the everyday, action-oriented term.
自じ制せい sense 2
自制 focuses narrowly on controlling one's own impulses or emotions, while 我慢 covers both that and enduring outside discomfort.
耐たえるN2
我慢する is a common transitive verb for enduring or putting up with something, often with a nuance of patience or self-restraint, while 耐える is more about withstanding a hardship and can be used intransitively.

Show 8 more

こらえるN2
我慢する is the everyday word for patiently putting up with a situation, while 堪える often implies a more physical or emotional act of suppression, like holding back tears or laughter.
控ひかえるN2
我慢する implies enduring or putting up with something unpleasant, whereas 控える is about voluntarily holding back or reducing an action.
たまる
我慢する describes a deliberate, patient act of putting up with something, whereas 堪る (usually as たまらない) describes an involuntary feeling that something has become unbearable.
忍にん
我慢 is the common, casual word for putting up with something, whereas 忍 is a formal, archaic term for the same idea of patience.

Don't confuse with

遠えん慮りょN4sense 2
遠慮 means holding back out of consideration for others (e.g. declining politely), while 我慢 means enduring or suppressing something for oneself.

Word family

我が慢まん強づよい
patient; persevering; long-suffering
やせ我が慢まん
stubborn endurance out of pride; putting up with something to save face
強ごう情じょう我が慢まん
obstinate and self-assertive; stubbornly insisting on one's own way
我が慢まん比

Written forms

我が慢まんUsage82%
Standard kanji spelling; high-frequency word in news and everyday use.
がまんUsage12%
Kana spelling is common in casual writing and when the kanji are not needed.
ガマンUsage6%
kana-only spelling
Katakana spelling used for emphasis or in informal contexts.

Etymology

From Buddhist terminology, originally meaning 'self-arrogance' or 'ego-attachment', but in modern Japanese it has shifted to mean 'endurance' or 'self-restraint'.

我が慢まん

Meanings

Usage patterns

Expressions