First opened Tuesday, September 3, 2024
台無し
だいなし
- 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).
mess, spoiled, (come to) nothing
Taken apart
We don't have the data for this section. Wiktionary has no Etymology section for this reading, and a split made without one would be a guess.
In a sentence
風やら雨やらで旅行は台無しだった。
What with the wind and the rain, our trip was spoiled.
風やら雨やらで、我々の散歩は台無しだった。
Our walk was spoiled by the wind and the rain.
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What Wiktionary says
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What the labels mean
- 混種語 Hybrid
- Words that mix layers, e.g. a native part with a Chinese one.