jmdict 1279680 Active (id#2363075)
構う [ichi1,news1,nf14]
かまう [ichi1,news1,nf14]
  1. [v5u,vi]
    • to mind
    • to care about
    • to be concerned about
    • to have a regard for
    Cross references:
    • ⇔ see: 1866610 構わない 1. no problem; it doesn't matter
    • ⇐ see: 2831314 かまちょ 1. please pay attention to me; please entertain me
  2. [v5u,vi]
    • to be an issue
    • to matter
    • to create inconvenience
  3. [v5u,vt] [uk]
    • to keep company
    • to care for
    • to look after
    • to entertain
    • to pay attention to
    • to spend time with
  4. [v5u,vi]
    • to interfere with
    • to meddle in
  5. [v5u,vt]
    • to tease
  6. [v5u,vt] [arch]
    • to banish
    • to prohibit
History:
    • A 2026-03-04 19:47:01 Jim Breen (id#2363075)
    • A* 2026-03-04 17:58:58 Sean McBroom (id#2363063)
    • Comments
      Actually, after looking more closely at the Twitter examples, I think most of the usage that looks like vi is either just omitting the object or follows a structure like XをXがかまう.
      
      Definitely tricky. For now, I’m just going to mark it vt, since that usage is the obvious one.
    • Diff
      @@ -35 +34,0 @@
      -<pos>&vi;</pos>
    • A 2025-05-23 21:57:04 Jim Breen (id#2340338)
    • A* 2025-05-22 20:49:34 Sean McBroom (id#2340272)
    • Comments
      Used intransitively in all the example sentences.
    • Refs
      [From Tatoeba]
      タバコを吸っても構わない。 
      いつ来てもかまわないよ。
      私は構いませんよ。
    • Diff
      @@ -17,0 +18 @@
      +<pos>&vi;</pos>
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