First opened Saturday, August 22, 2009
寝坊
ねぼう
- 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).
sleeping in late
Sleeping in is, word for word, a “sleeping boy”.
Taken apart
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In a sentence
彼はときどき寝坊する。
He sometimes sleeps in.
僕は寝坊して学校に遅刻した。
I overslept and was late for school.
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.
- “Compound of 寝 (ne, “sleeping”, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “the continuative or stem form”) of verb 寝る (neru, “to sleep”)) + 坊 (bō, “boy”, term of endearment).”
Source: Wiktionary: 寝坊 (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
- 混種語 Hybrid
- Words that mix layers, e.g. a native part with a Chinese one.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.