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観念

かんねん

idea, notion; resignation

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Examples

  1. 彼は時間の観念が乏しい。

    かれはじかんのかんねんがとぼしい。

    He has little sense of time.

  2. 固定した観念を疑ってみよう。

    こていしたかんねんをうたがってみよう。

    Let's try questioning our fixed notions.

  3. もう逃げられないと観念した。

    もうにげられないとかんねんした。

    He resigned himself to the fact that there was no escape.

Common patterns

固定観念
a fixed idea
時間の観念がない
to have no sense of time
観念する
to give up and accept one's fate

Memory tip

Two quite different lives: as a noun it is an 'idea' held in the mind, but as a verb 観念する means to give up and accept the inevitable — what a cornered character says in a period drama. 概念 is the neutral academic 'concept'.

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