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かなわない: be beyond one's power, be unable — Japanese vocabulary

かなわない means "be beyond one's power, be unable". JLPT N1 word with pitch accent and an example sentence.

かなわない

Reading
かなわない · kanawanai
Translation
be beyond one's power, be unable
Level
JLPT N1

Example

誰も英語では彼にかなわない。

だれもえいごではかれにかなわない。

No one excels him in English.

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