いないで

inaide

without being there

彼はいないで、私たちは自由に話せた。

Without him being there, we could talk freely.

informal

A phrase indicating that someone is not present or absent from a situation or place.

先生がいないで、生徒たちは騒いでいた。

With the teacher not being there, the students were making noise.

This phrase is often used to describe a situation where someone's absence allows for different behavior or actions.

Collocations

can do without

This phrase is often used to explain why something happened or why someone behaved in a certain way because someone was not present.

Derived from the negative form of the verb 'いる' (to be) combined with the particle 'で' (indicating a state or condition).

This phrase is commonly used in everyday conversation to describe the absence of someone in a particular context.

いない

not present

root

で

indicating a state or condition

particle

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