気が違う

Japanese

Alternative spelling
氣が違う (kyūjitai)

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]

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))

[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)
[from late 1700s] (archaic, Edo) to be extremely unusual, to be very strange or remarkable
Synonym: とんでもない (tondemonai)

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

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
^ Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN
^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN