First opened Sunday, June 10, 2012
とんだ
とんだ
- 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).
terrible, awful, serious, absolutely not
Tonda is the past or perfective of 飛ぶ (tobu, “to deviate from common sense”), and is unrelated to とんでもない (tondemonai, “outrageous”).
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
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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.
- “Past or perfective of 飛(と)ぶ (tobu, “to deviate from common sense”).”
- “Unrelated to とんでもない (tondemonai, “outrageous”).”
Source: Wiktionary: とんだ (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.