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碌に

ろくに

(with negative) hardly; barely; not properly; not enough

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Examples

  1. 昨夜は碌に眠れなかった。

    ゆうべはろくにねむれなかった。

    I hardly slept at all last night.

  2. 忙しくて碌に食事もしていない。

    いそがしくてろくにしょくじもしていない。

    I have been so busy that I have not even eaten properly.

  3. 碌に調べもしないで結論を出すべきではない。

    ろくにしらべもしないでけつろんをだすべきではない。

    You should not reach a conclusion without even investigating properly.

Common patterns

碌に～ない
hardly ~ at all
碌に寝ていない
to have barely slept
碌な物がない
there is nothing decent

Memory tip

碌に is fixed to a negative predicate: alone it never means 'well'. It carries a complaining, slightly rough tone, so keep it out of polite reports. 碌 is ateji, and modern writing uses ろくに in kana.

Kanji in this word

  • 碌Not in the N5–N1 kanji lists

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