気が違う

Japanese
Kanji in this term
気 違
き
Grade: 1		 ちが
Grade: S
kan’on kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
氣が違う (kyūjitai)

Etymology

Verbal phrase, composed of 気 (ki, “mood, spirit, mind, feelings”) +‎ が (ga, subject particle) +‎ 違う (chigau, “to be different; to be abnormal”).[1]

First attested in works from the late Muromachi period (1336–1573).[1]

This term appears to be rare in modern usage, and it is not included in some dictionaries.[2][3][4]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [kʲi ɡa̠ t͡ɕiɡa̠ɯ̟ᵝ]

Verb

気(き)が違(ちが)う • (ki ga chigau) ←きがちがふ (ki ga tigafu)?godan (stem 気(き)が違(ちが)い (ki ga chigai), past 気(き)が違(ちが)った (ki ga chigatta))

  1. [from late 1500s] (rare) to go mad, to become insane
    • 1919, Akutagawa Ryūnosuke, 地獄変 [Hell Screen]:
      元(がん)來(らい)この弟(で)子(し)は畫(が)筆(ひつ)などを握(にぎ)るよりも、太(た)刀(ち)でも持(も)つた方(はう)が好(よ)ささうな、逞(たくま)しい若(わか)者(もの)でございましたが、これには流石(さすが)に驚(おどろ)いたと見(み)えて、後(あと)々(あと)までもその時(とき)の話(はなし)を致(いた)しますと、「これは師(し)匠(しやう)が氣(き)が違(ちが)つて、私(わたくし)を殺(ころ)すのではないかと思(おも)ひました」と繰(くり)返(かへ)して申(まう)したさうでございます。
      Ganrai kono deshi wa gahitsu nado o nigiru yori mo, tachi de mo motta hō ga yosasō na, takumashii wakamono de gozaimashita ga, kore ni wa sasuga ni odoroita to miete, atoato made mo sono toki no hanashi o itashimasu to, “kore wa shishō ga ki ga chigatte, watakushi o korosu no de wa nai ka to omoimashita” to kurikaeshite mōshita sō de gozaimasu.
      (please add an English translation of this example)
  2. [from late 1700s] (archaic, Edo) to be extremely unusual, to be very strange or remarkable
    Synonym: とんでもない (tondemonai)

Conjugation
Conjugation of "気が違う" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)
Katsuyōkei ("stem forms")
Mizenkei ("imperfective") 気が違わ きがちがわ ki ga chigawa
Ren’yōkei ("continuative") 気が違い きがちがい ki ga chigai
Shūshikei ("terminal") 気が違う きがちがう ki ga chigau
Rentaikei ("attributive") 気が違う きがちがう ki ga chigau
Kateikei ("hypothetical") 気が違え きがちがえ ki ga chigae
Meireikei ("imperative") 気が違え きがちがえ ki ga chigae
Key constructions
Passive 気が違われる きがちがわれる ki ga chigawareru
Causative 気が違わせる
気が違わす		 きがちがわせる
きがちがわす		 ki ga chigawaseru
ki ga chigawasu
Potential 気が違える きがちがえる ki ga chigaeru
Volitional 気が違おう きがちがおう ki ga chigaō
Negative 気が違わない きがちがわない ki ga chigawanai
Negative continuative 気が違わず きがちがわず ki ga chigawazu
Formal 気が違います きがちがいます ki ga chigaimasu
Perfective 気が違った きがちがった ki ga chigatta
Conjunctive 気が違って きがちがって ki ga chigatte
Hypothetical conditional 気が違えば きがちがえば ki ga chigaeba

References
  1. Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  3. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  4. Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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