ちんぷんかんぷん

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Meanings

Noun

Na-adjective

1. unintelligible language; incoherent language; talking nonsense; babble; gibberish; jargon; gobbledygook (Usually kana, Onomatopoeia)

Other readings

Pitch accent

ちんぷんかんぷん

Examples9

その理り論ろんは私わたしにはちんぷんかんぷんだ。

The theory is too abstract for me.

私わたしにはちんぷんかんぷんでした。

That was all Chinese to me.

それはちんぷんかんぷんだ。

It's all Greek to me.

先せん生せいが言いったことが、ちんぷんかんぷん。

I didn't understand what the teacher said.

彼かれの演えん説ぜつは最さい初しょのところが少すこし理り解かいできたが、残のこりはちんぷんかんぷんだった。

I could understand the first few sentences, but the rest of his speech was all Greek to me.

アインシュタインの相そう対たい性せい理り論ろんは私わたしにはちんぷんかんぷんだ。

Einstein's theory of relativity is Greek to me.