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だめ
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Meanings
Na-adjective
Noun
1. no good; not serving its purpose; useless; broken (Usually kana)
2. hopeless; wasted; in vain; purposeless (Usually kana)
3. cannot; must not; not allowed (Usually kana)
Noun
4. neutral point; intersection owned by neither player at the end of a game
Interjection
5. no!; stop! (Usually kana)
Other spellings
駄だ目め
Other readings
ダメ
Kanji in other spellings
駄low quality目eye
Pitch accent
だめ
Used in vocabulary
だめだめ
entirely useless; completely worthless; no no; don't!
Na-adjective
ダメ押おし
making doubly sure; points scored for good measure; insurance run (in baseball)
Noun
駄だ目め出だし
criticizing; lambasting; pointing out faults; finding fault; calling for a retake; ordering (someone) to redo something
Noun
だめもと
giving something a try because it will not do any harm
Noun
ダメ人にん間げん
useless member of society; hopeless case; failure
Noun
駄だ目め男お
no-good man; (male) loser
Noun
駄だ目め男おとこ
no-good man; (male) loser
Noun
駄だ目め女おんな
no-good woman; (female) loser
Noun
駄だ目め詰づめ
filling neutral points; filling dame points
Noun
Examples182
It's all over.
Don't sit up late at night.
I wore out two pairs of jogging shoes last year.
That's a bad day for me.
The housing project has fallen flat.
Tom, don't die.