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| A structure that is used to indicate that something animate does not or cannot do something satisfactorily/sufficiently/properly. | Not sufficiently; not satisfactorily; not properly; not well; hardly |
(ks). 飛行機の中ではろくに寝られなかった。
On the plane I couldn't sleep well.
| ろくに | Vnegativeない |
| ろくに食べない | Someone doesn’t eat properly |
(a). ろくに勉強もしないで試験を受けたので、全然出来なかった。
I took the exam without studying properly, so it was a disaster (literally: I couldn't do well at all).
(b). 短いパリ滞在だったので、彼女とはろくに会えなかった。
It was such a short stay in Paris that I hardly met her.
(c). 彼はフランスのことなどろくに知らないのに、よく知っているような口を利く。
He hardly knows about France, but he talks as if he knew a lot about it.
(d). せっかくデパートまで買い物に出かけたのに、買い物中気分が悪くなってろくに買い物もせずに帰って来た。
I went shopping, and got as far as to a department store, but I came home without doing much shopping (literally: shopping properly) because I felt sick while shopping.
(e). 僕の犬はろくに芸もしない。
My dog hardly does any tricks
