予感

よかん

presentiment; premonition; hunch; to have a premonition

JLPT N1 Common word

Meanings

Noun
presentiment; premonition; hunch
Suru verb, Transitive
to have a premonition; to have a hunch

Example sentences

嫌いやな予感よかんがする。

I have a bad feeling.
彼かれの予感よかんがあたった。

His predictions have come true.
雨あめの降ふる予感よかんがする。

I think that it might rain.
嫌いやな予感よかんが的中てきちゅうした。

My premonition turned out to be right.
何なにか嫌いやな予感よかんがした。

I had a bad feeling about this.

More examples (8)

彼かれらが仲良なかよくやっていけない予感よかんがする。

I feel in my bones that they will never get along well together.
何なにか大おおきなことが起おこりそうな予感よかんがします。

I have a feeling that something big is about to happen.
彼女かのじょの感かんは結構けっこう当あたる。主おもに悪わるい予感よかんのときだけ。

Her intuition is quite accurate. Especially when she predicts things are going bad.
吹ふき荒あれる嵐あらしの予感よかんに、僕ぼくらはこぞって震ふるえあがった。

At this hint of the violent storm to come we shuddered as one.
何なにか嫌いやな予感よかんがすると思おもった瞬間しゅんかん、突然目とつぜんめの前まえが真まっ暗くらになった。

At the moment that I thought I was having a premonition, suddenly everything went black.
あの仕事しごと、トムに任まかせて大丈夫だいじょうぶなの？悪わるい予感よかんしかしないんだけど。

Do you think it's okay to leave that job to Tom? I have a bad feeling about it.
イントロを聴きいたときは名曲めいきょくの予感よかんがしたが、聴きき進すすめるほどに残念ざんねんな感かんじになった。

When I heard the intro, I had the feeling it was going to be a legendary song, but as I progressed further in, it felt more and more disappointing.
トムはメアリーが新あたらしいボーイフレンドをパーティーに連つれてくるだろうという予感よかんがした。

Tom had a hunch that Mary would bring her new boyfriend to the party.