- unnatural; artificial; affected; strained
adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi); noun (common) (futsuumeishi)
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Evidence that the above example is farfetched can be seen by comparing the total occurrences of component X.
It's very easy to sound natural in your own native language, and very easy to sound unnatural in your non-native language.
Generally, the sense whether or not an expression is natural can't really be relied on. For example, even if it feels unnatural, it is often easily due to lack of experience.
"What should we do with this unnatural English sentence of yours?" "Change it or delete it. Just make it work somehow."