First opened Thursday, May 4, 2006

あんな

flat (heiban)

How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).

such, like that

JLPT N4Commonpre-noun adjectival (rentaishi)和語 · Native JapaneseSound change

Anna contracts あの様な (ano yō na).

Taken apart

No breakdown is shown for this word: Wiktionary's text for it doesn't give a split that spells the word and joins to its reading, and any other split would be a guess.

In a sentence

昔(むかし)はあんな人(ひと)ではなかった。
He is not what he used to be.
Tatoeba #142412, translation #272158
２度(ど)とあんなことをするな。
Don't ever do that kind of thing again.
Tatoeba #235424, translation #72802

Sentences are from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), picked by fixed rules from a dated export and shown unchanged. Nobody has reviewed them one by one.

What Wiktionary says

Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.

“Contraction of あの様(よう)な (ano yō na).”

Source: Wiktionary: あんな (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.
Sound change: The pronunciation shifted over the centuries.

Related in the dictionary

The words JMdict points to from this word's sense. A word that has opened links to its day; the others are named as JMdict writes them.

See also: あんなにあんなにto that extent, to that degree
こんなこんなsuch, like this
そんなそんなsuch, like that, that sort of
どんなどんなwhat, what kind of

Other words so far that share a part, a process or a layer with this one, closest first. Each tag says what is shared; nothing here is a claim beyond what the entries already show.

一昨日おととい
the day before yesterday
- Sound change
- 和語 Native Japanese
上うえ
above (up, top, etc.), over, on top of
- Sound change
- 和語 Native Japanese
重んじるおもんじる
to respect, to honor, to esteem, to prize
- Sound change
- 和語 Native Japanese
ございますございます
to be (polite, to exist)
- Sound change
- 和語 Native Japanese
魚うお
fish
- Sound change
- 和語 Native Japanese
暦こよみ
calendar, almanac
- Sound change
- 和語 Native Japanese

Also opened on May 4

The words that opened on this day of the year in other years, oldest first. They share only the date: nothing else links them.