暇 – vocab dash

暇ひま

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Meanings

Noun

1. spare time; free time; leisure

2. time (it takes to do something); time required

3. time off; leave; vacation; holiday

4. dismissal; firing; severance; divorce

Na-adjective

5. free; not busy; unoccupied; idle

6. slow (business); slack; dull

Kanji used

Pitch accent

ひま

Used in vocabulary

time and effort; trouble

Noun

a poor man has no time for leisure; there is no rest for the poor

Expression

Examples118

私わたしは暇ひまな時じ間かんに詩しを書かきます。

I write poems in my free time.

今こん晩ばん暇ひまかな？

Are you free tonight?

暇ひまな時じ間かんが多おおければ多おおいほど、それだけ彼かれは楽たのしい。

The more leisure he has, the happier he is.

仕し事ごとは楽らくで、暇ひまがたくさんあります。

My job is easy and I have a lot of free time.

仕し事ごとが忙いそがしくて、君きみに手て紙がみを書かくひまがなかった。

Busy with my work, I had no time to write to you.

ジョンはひどく急いそいでいたので話はなしをする暇ひまもなかった。

John was in such a hurry that he had no time for talking.