First opened Monday, June 13, 2005
絶えず
たえず
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constantly
Taezu is the negative continuative of 絶える (taeru, “to cease”).
Taken apart
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Written with 絶
In a sentence
彼は父親を絶えず恐れている。
He is in constant dread of his father.
妹は絶えず漫画を読んでいます。
My sister is constantly reading comic books.
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What Wiktionary says
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- “From the negative continuative form of the verb 絶える (taeru, “to cease”).”
Source: Wiktionary: 絶えず (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 和語 Native Japanese
- Words that were already Japanese before Chinese vocabulary arrived — usually written with kun'yomi and often short.