根ねっから

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Meanings

1

noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no', adverb

Describes an inherent quality or disposition that is fundamental to a person or thing. Often used with ～だ or ～の.

しょう

直じき

な

人ひと

だ

。

He is an honest person through and through.

根ねっからの都と会かいっ子こだから、田舎いなか暮ぐらしは難むずかしい。

Being a city kid at heart, country life is difficult for him.

2

noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no', adverb

Used with a negative verb to express complete negation. The pattern is 根っから～ない.

根ねっからの〈人ひと〉a born ~ (a person who is that way through and through)
彼かれは根ねっからの音おん楽がく家かで、休やすみの日ひも演えん奏そうしている。
He's a musician through and through, playing even on his days off.
根ねっから〜ないnot ~ at all; absolutely not ~
そんな話はなしは根ねっから信しんじられない。
I can't believe a story like that at all.
根ねっから〈形けい容よう詞し〉inherently ~; ~ by nature
彼かの女じょは根ねっから明あかるい性せい格かくだ。
She has a cheerful personality by nature.

もともとN3sense 1
もともと describes how something was originally or from the start, while 根っから stresses that the trait is deeply ingrained and essentially unchangeable.
皆かい目もく sense 2
皆目 is used with a negative to mean 'not at all', much like 根っから〜ない, but 皆目 is slightly more formal and literary.
生うまれつきN1sense 1
生まれつき specifically means 'from birth' (a congenital trait), whereas 根っから can describe any deeply rooted quality, not only innate ones.
とんと sense 2
とんと paired with a negative also means 'not in the least', but it has an old-fashioned, colloquial flavor compared to 根っから.

根ねっこN1
根っこ is a noun meaning 'root' or 'stump' of a plant, while 根っから is an adverb meaning 'by nature'; the shared 根っ- makes them easy to mix up despite unrelated meanings.

An emphatic form of 根から, “from the root,” formed with 根 and the particle から; the consonant is geminated in ねっから.