無駄話

Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: 4

Grade: S
はなし > ばなし
Grade: 2
on’yomi kun’yomi

Etymology

From 無駄 (muda, useless) + (hanashi, talk). The hanashi changes to banashi as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation

  • (Tokyo) だばなし [mùdábáꜜnàshì] (Nakadaka – [3])[1]
  • IPA(key): [mɯ̟ᵝda̠ba̠na̠ɕi]

Noun

()()(ばなし) • (mudabanashi) 

  1. chatter, idle talk

Verb

()()(ばなし)する • (mudabanashi suru) suru (stem ()()(ばなし) (mudabanashi shi), past ()()(ばなし)した (mudabanashi shita))

  1. to shoot the breeze, yakety-yak
    喫茶店(きっさてん)友人(ゆうじん)無駄話(むだばなし)して()ごす
    kissaten de yūjin to mudabanashi shite sugosu
    chatting with friends at cafe to spend time

Conjugation

References

  1. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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