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しまった
しまった
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Damn it!
Shimatta is the perfective of しまう (shimau, “to finish”): literally “finished”.
Taken apart
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In a sentence
しまった！ウッカリして、携帯電話をお店に忘れてきちゃった。
Oh no! I wasn't paying attention and left my cell phone in the restaurant!
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What Wiktionary says
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- “The perfective form of しまう (shimau, “to finish”), literally meaning “finished”. Compare Mandarin 完了 (wánle).”
Source: Wiktionary: しまった (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 和語 Native Japanese
- Words that were already Japanese before Chinese vocabulary arrived — usually written with kun'yomi and often short.