First opened Sunday, January 14, 2007
いつまでも
いつまでも
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forever, for good, eternally
Itsumademo is いつ (itsu, “when”) plus まで (made, “until, up to”) plus も (mo, “even, also”): literally “until even any time”.
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What Wiktionary says
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- “From いつ (itsu, “when”) + まで (made, “until, up to”) + も (mo, “even, also”, inclusive) Literally, "until even any time".”
- Hedged“The construction itsu made ("until when") is attested already as Old Japanese itu made in the Man'yōshū of 759 CE. Likewise, the construction made mo ("even until") is also attested in the Man'yōshū, as is itu mo ("any time, whenever; always"). That said, the earliest attestation of the full phrase itsu made mo might not be until the Shaku Nihongi in the late 1200s.”
Source: Wiktionary: いつまでも (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.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.