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JLPT N2 Grammar

っこない

N2Negation

N2 · Negation · masu-stem verb + っこない

no chance of; definitely not

masu-stem verb + っこない

っこない strongly says something will not happen or is impossible, and is colloquial.

It often carries the speaker’s subjective judgment.

そんな難しい問題、子どもに分かりっこないよ。

A child could never understand such a difficult problem.

Do not use it in formal writing; it is very conversational.

A strong spoken “no way”: っこない.

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