感じます（かんじます、kanjimasu）
- to feel

The Japanese word 感じます, pronounced かんじます (kanjimasu), translates to "I feel," "I sense," or "I think" in English. It expresses the act of feeling, sensing, or perceiving something, whether it's an emotion, a physical sensation, an impression, or an opinion. 感じます is a polite form of the verb. It can be used to describe both internal and external experiences. It's important to note the nuance of 感じる can sometimes lean towards "thinking" or "feeling" depending on the context.

⚫︎ 嬉しい気持ちを感じます Translation: I feel happy. ⚫︎ 寒さを感じます Translation: I feel cold. ⚫︎ この音楽は素晴らしいと感じます Translation: I think this music is wonderful.

⚫︎ Use 感じます when you want to express your feelings, senses, or opinions politely. ⚫︎ The subject of the sentence (the person feeling or sensing) is usually implied (i.e., "I" in the examples above) or explicitly stated with a subject marker (は、が). ⚫︎ The thing you are feeling or sensing is often marked with を, が, or と, depending on the context. ⚫︎ It is appropriate for a wide variety of situations, both formal and informal, when politeness is desired.

⚫︎ The base form of the verb is 感じる (かんじる - kanjiru). ⚫︎ The polite form is 感じます (かんじます - kanjimasu). ⚫︎ It is typically written in hiragana and kanji. ⚫︎ Kanji: 感じ ⚫︎ Hiragana: かんじます ⚫︎ The okurigana (the suffix hiragana) is usually ます when in polite form. The okurigana changes depending on the conjugation of the verb.

⚫︎ 思います (おもいます - omoimasu): to think, to feel (often used for opinions). ⚫︎ 気がします (きがします - kigashimasu): I feel like; I have a feeling. ⚫︎ 味わう (あじわう - ajiwau): to taste, to experience (used for more intense feeling or experience) ⚫︎ 感じる (かんじる - kanjiru): to feel, sense (formal)

It doesn't have a direct antonym. However, one might consider words that express not feeling, not sensing, or not having an opinion as antonyms in a loose sense. For instance, expressing a lack of feeling or sensory experience, but there isn't one single word.

私は疲れていると感じます。 ・Translation: I feel tired. ・Explanation: This sentence expresses the speaker's feeling of tiredness, using 感じます to show it politely.

この映画は少し退屈だと感じます。 ・Translation: I feel this movie is a bit boring. ・Explanation: The speaker is expressing their opinion about the movie using 感じます.

The kanji 感 (kan) means "feeling," "sensation," or "impression." The kanji じ (ji) is used to denote the concept of something existing, being, and action, in this case, a verb. Therefore, 感じる comes from the combination of 感, which relates to feeling/sensation, and the verb form じる. The addition of the polite suffix ます creates the polite form, 感じます.