JLPT N2 · い-adjective

思い掛けない (omoigakenai)

思い掛けない (おもいがけない, omoigakenai) is a Japanese い-adjective meaning “unexpected; contrary to expectations”. It appears in JLPT N2 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading
おもいがけない
Romaji
omoigakenai
Word class
い-adjective
Level
JLPT N2 (unofficial)

Meaning

  1. unexpected; contrary to expectations; by chance; casual · い-adjective

Example sentences

彼は全く思いがけなく着いた。
He arrived quite out of the blue.

Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.

Conjugation of 思い掛けない

い-adjective. Plain and polite forms below; try any other word in the Japanese verb conjugator.

FormJapaneseReading
Present思い掛けないおもいがけない omoigakenai
Negative思い掛けなくないおもいがけなくない omoigakenakunai
Past思い掛けなかったおもいがけなかった omoigakenakatta
Negative past思い掛けなくなかったおもいがけなくなかった omoigakenakunakatta
Te-form思い掛けなくておもいがけなくて omoigakenakute
Adverb (~ku)思い掛けなくおもいがけなく omoigakenaku
Conditional (~ba)思い掛けなければおもいがけなければ omoigakenakereba

Kanji in 思い掛けない

Related words

Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 思い掛けない.

Source: JMdict entry 1610630 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.