必然(ひつぜん)

必然(ひつぜん) refers to something that must happen—inevitability or necessity by natural law or logic.

DERIVED FORMS:

• 必然的(ひつぜんてき)(な): inevitable (na-adjective)
• 必然的(ひつぜんてき)に: inevitably (adverb)
• 必然性(ひつぜんせい): inevitability, necessity (abstract noun)

COMMON PATTERNS:

• 必然(ひつぜん)の結果(けっか): an inevitable result
• 必然的(ひつぜんてき)に起(お)こる: to happen inevitably
• 歴史(れきし)の必然(ひつぜん): historical inevitability

CONTRAST:

• 必然(ひつぜん): inevitability (must happen)
• 偶然(ぐうぜん): chance, coincidence (happens by accident)