| お待ち兼ね | おまちかね | (adj-no,n) long-waited-for/ |
| 堪え兼ねる | たえかねる
| (v1) to be unable to endure/to lose
patience/ |
| 気兼ね | きがね | (adj-na,n,vs) hesitance/diffidence/feeling
constraint/fear of troubling someone/having scruples about doing
something/(P)/ |
| 居間兼食堂 | いまけんしょくどう
| living room-cum-dining room/ |
| 居間兼寝室 | いまけんしんしつ | living room and bedroom/bed-sitter/(P)/ |
| 見兼ねる | みかねる
| (v1) to be unable to let pass unnoticed/to be
unable to be indifferent/ |
| 言い兼ねる | いいかねる | (v1) to find it hard to say/ |
| 御待ち兼ね | おまちかね | (adj-no,n) long-waited-for/ |
| 才色兼備 | さいしょくけんび
| (n) (a woman) being gifted with both
intelligence and beauty/ |
| 仕兼ねない | しかねない | capable of anything/ |
| 仕兼ねる | しかねる
| (v1) to be unable to do/to hesitate/to be
reluctant/ |
| 首相兼外相 | しゅしょうけんがいしょ
う | Prime Minister and Foreign
Minister/(P)/ |
| 申し兼ねる | もうしかねる | (v1) I'm sorry to trouble you/ |
| 耐兼ねる | たえかねる
| (v1) to be unable to endure/to lose
patience/ |
| 待ち兼ねる | まちかねる | (v1) to wait impatiently for/(P)/ |
| 昼夜兼行 | ちゅうやけんこう
| around-the-clock/(working) day and
night/ |
| 用事と遊びを兼ねて | ようじとあそびをかねて | on business combined with pleasure/ |
| 両職を兼ねる | りょうしょくをかねる | (exp) to hold two offices concurrently/ |
Japanese - English dictionary courtesy of Jim Breen.
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