What’s the Difference between 気にしない vs 構わない
There are a lot of expressions people use all the time to express a variety of different moods. In English, if you say I don’t care you are talking about not letting something bother you. There are also ways to say I don’t care in Japanese. Here are two of them.
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How to Say I Don’t Care in Japanese?
There are many different ways to say I don’t care, I don’t mind, don’t worry about it and so on In Japanese. There are two words or phrases which are very similar but not quite the same. They are,
- 気にしない
- 構わない
Let’s take a look at them.
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気にしない is the negative form of 気にする. This phrase, 気にする means to mind or even worry about something.
So, 気にしない would be how you would say you don’t care about something. More accurately you would say 気にしていない in the present to say that you currently are not caring about something.
You can also say 気にしないで to someone else which means don’t worry about it, forget about it, or, it’s ok.
構わない
構う is the base verb form of 構わない which is the negative form. 構う is a fairly broad verb that means to mind something, meddle with, or give some kind of attention to. This could be positive or negative attention but the point is that whatever the thing is, you are involved with it. So the reverse of this, 構わない would be something you are not giving that attention to or unconcerned about.
気にしない vs 構わない
構わない and 気にしない are similar but not exactly the same. 気にしない would mean that you are not worried about something, or not going to let it worry you. 構わない on the other hand would mean something that you are not worried about because it is not affecting you or it is not affecting you enough to care about it.
