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[exp,vs-i]
《usu. in the negative》 ▶ to budge ▶ to move even slightly ▶ to move even an inch
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4. | A 2024-01-28 10:58:13 Jim Breen <...address hidden...> | |
Comments: | Thanks. I should have noticed that. |
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3. | A* 2024-01-28 09:53:17 Fryderyk Mazurek <...address hidden...> | |
Comments: | Fixed reading. |
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Diff: | @@ -8 +8 @@ -<reb>微動だにする</reb> +<reb>びどうだにする</reb> |
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2. | A 2024-01-27 11:07:34 Jim Breen <...address hidden...> | |
Refs: | GG5 and 中辞典 examples. |
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Comments: | Worth having. |
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Diff: | @@ -11,0 +12 @@ +<pos>&vs-i;</pos> |
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1. | A* 2024-01-24 14:49:22 Brian Krznarich <...address hidden...> | |
Refs: | 微動 159952 微動だ 85505 <--- fully half the time used with this structure. Very large absolute # of ngrams 微動だに 83666 微動だにしない 37577 <-- しない 微動だにせず 25451 <--- or せず 微動だにしなかった 6949 <--- or なかった 微動の 6857 微動だにしません 6747 <-- or しません 微動が 4355 微動を 4309 微動だに 88725 56.1% <--- 微動 is the most common use of だに, even though 予想 is *way* more common. 予想だに 58941 37.2% 一顧だに 10597 6.7% 予想 19922234 99.1% <--- 0.2 % だに 微動 159974 0.8% <-- 50%+ だに collocation 一顧 13587 0.1% https://eow.alc.co.jp/search?q=だにしない 微動だにしない budge not an inch [a millimeter] not move an inch not move at all not stir an inch be perfectly [absolutely, completely, entirely, totally] motionless perfectly [absolutely, completely, totally, entirely, fully] still ~では微動だにしない be utterly unmoved by ずっと微動だにせず立つ stand completely still all the time 微動だにせず横たわる lie absolutely still |
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Comments: | I don't think this is a case of "better as an example sentence", but I know there may be disagreement. sankoku gives this as the sole example for 微動: [-だにしない]. It is also the first of two examples for the だに entry(the other is [思うだに悲しい], which is rare and has 0 ngrams). I saw this in a "sword in the stone" description. Many heroes tried to remove the sword, but it never even budged. I think "to budge" is a great gloss, but it would be weird to try and stick it as noun into the main 微動 entry("budging"?) *and* there would still be no clue there as to the importance of だに. If you search eijiro for だにせず, there are 6 collocations, 5 of them are with 微動. If you search だにしない, you'll also see 予想だに and 一顧だに. But this noun is perhaps the most-common common use of だに, which I'd never seen before this. 微動だにする with a [note] avoids the alternative of separate (or no) entries for: 微動だにせず 微動だにしない 微動だにしなかった ... and some other neg forms I found: 微動だにすることなく 184 微動だにできない 556 微動だにできず 256 微動だにできなかった 235 but I would rather see an entry with any of those than no entry at all. It looks like だに, which we mark (and kokugos mark) as [form/lit] is perhaps not actually either of those in this fixed expression. I'm going to pitch an xref here from だに. I would also suggest one from 微動 itself, as this is fully 50% of uses. Modeled a bit after 釈然とする and 飽きもせず entries. Maybe wishful thinking to propose this, but I believe this is useful on several levels. |