なす
Also written 成す
Meanings
- Godan verb, Transitive to form; to make; to constitute
- to build up (e.g. a fortune); to create; to establish
- to accomplish; to achieve; to win (fame); to gain
- to change (into); to convert (as ...と〜)
- to do; to commit; to carry out; to bring about (also written as 為す)
- Suffix, Godan verb to do intentionally (after the -masu stem of a verb)
Example sentences
- 成せば成る。
Where there's a will, there's a way. - 遅くともなさざるにまさる。
Better late than never. - 君の言うことなすこと、私にはさっぱりわからない。
I can make nothing of what you do or say. - 脅迫のもとになされた約束は無効だ。
A promise given under a threat is worthless. - なされたことは元通りにはならない。
What is done cannot be undone.
Common phrases
- 財を成す (ざいをなす) to build a fortune
- 対を成す (ついをなす) to act as an opposite
- 重きをなす (おもきをなす) to carry weight
- 根幹をなす
- 列を成す (れつをなす) to form a line
- 子をなす
- 形をなす
- 層をなす
- 行列をなす
- 中でなす
- 前になす
Related forms
- なる to become (intransitive partner)
Words containing なす
- いいなす to speak as though something were actually the case
- 取りなす (とりなす) to mediate
- 聞きなす (ききなす) to hear (something) as
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