いけん

See also: いげん

JapaneseEdit

For pronunciation and definitions of いけん – see the following entries.

【威権】	[noun] authority

【異見】	[noun] different opinion [noun] objection [verb] have a differing opinion

【意見】	[noun] opinion [noun] advice, a suggestion [verb] to advise, to suggest [verb] to admonish

【違憲】	[noun] unconstitutionality

(This term, いけん, is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)

(The following entry is uncreated: 遺賢.)

A shift from いけぬ (ikenu), the classical conjugation of modern いけない (ikenai).^[1]

いけん • (iken)

(Chūgoku, Shikoku, Kansai) to be not good, bad, forbidden
- あの子(こ)はいけん。
  Ano ko wa iken.
  That kid is no good.
(Chūgoku, Shikoku, Kansai) it's bad if, you must not, you should not... (used after a conditional such as ば (-ba) or と (to) or たら (-tara), or after a nominalized verb phrase ending in the て (-te) conjunctive conjugation and often the particle は (ha) or も (mo))
- お風呂入(ふろはい)らないといけん。
  Ofuro hairanai to iken.
  It's bad if you don't take a bath.
- まだ食(た)べてはいけんよ。
  Mada tabete wa iken yo.
  You really shouldn't eat yet.

^ “行ん”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”)‎^[1] (in Japanese), 2nd edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000, →ISBN