![]() Sometimes people put the word maji (seriously) before ukeru to emphasise how funny it is by saying maji ukeru (マジウケル). ![]() Ukeru is a verb that means ‘to take’ but when used as slang it’s always written in katakana and means ‘that’s hilarious’. Kimoi isn’t the most polite slang, but let’s be honest, for the under 20 crowd, there’s always a rude word to say how much you despise or dislike something! Kimoi comes from the word kimochi warui (気持ち悪い / きも ちわる い)which means ‘disgusting’ or ‘gross’. It’s an expressive phrase used mostly by guys and shows great disbelief or refusal to accept what someone is saying. Uso comes from the word usotsuki (嘘つき) meaning ‘liar’ and is used with だ as in uso da! / うそだ!to say ‘That’s a lie’ or ‘Don’t lie’. It sounds a little funny when chou comes from adults so just remember this is predominantly a young female slang word. You can use chou in the same way as meccha to intensify your description of something as in chou umai (so delicious) and chou sugoi (so cool!). ChouĬhou is almost identical to meccha except it’s used more by younger females. Just be careful not to overuse meccha because it can sound a bit immature or exaggerated.Īs a slang word it’s informal so you can trade meccha for sugoku or totemo to sound more polite. You can use meccha with adjectives or adverbs to enhance your description of anything from a place or an experience: Meccha is frequently used for expressing how delicious something tastes as in meccha oishii or meccha umai! (めっちゃ美味しい / めっちゃうまい). ![]() You can add kucha for even more emphasis as in meccha kucha ii or meccha kuccha ii yo! (めっちゃくちゃいいよ!) Meccha (めっちゃ)is slang for ‘very’ or ‘really’ and is used to express to a great extent how good or bad something was (though it’s normally used in a positive context!)Ī popular phrase is meccha ii (めっちゃいい)which means ‘really good’. There was a player in England faster than Mbappe. Mbappe yori hayai senshu ga igirisu ni ita yo. (That is / It’s) Seriously bad / unbelievable!Īnother variant of maji de is maji ka / マジか and it is more common among boys. You often find maji de and the previous slang word, yabai, as a pair: Just one thing to note when you type maji de using Japanese characters online – maji is usually written in katakana (マジ) and the particle de is written in hiragana (で)to make the phrase マジで. The cool thing about maji de is that it’s not only Japanese internet slang – it’s also used regularly in casual conversation too! ![]() If you take away the – me at the end of the word majime, you get maji and with the addition of the particle で ( de) you have your Japanese slang word for ‘seriously’: maji de?! (マジで?!). Maji de comes from the word majime (真面目 / まじめ) which means ‘sincere’, ‘honest’ and ‘truthful’. Isn’t that terrible? / Isn’t that like… really bad? Maji de Yabai is often shortened to yaba (やばー!)when used by males and can be used with -kunai, the negative form for Japanese i-adjectives: Yabai is also used to show disapproval of something.įor example, if someone told you about a political or workplace scandal, you could say mou yabai yo… / ‘もうやばいよ…’ to say ‘that’s so bad…’. Depending on how the person feels about skydiving, it could mean they are shocked at how daring and dangerous it is, like ‘what the’ or ‘that’s crazy’ or it could express awe, as in ‘Wow!’ Or ‘Cool!’. In this situation, someone might say やばい!( yabai!). ![]() Let’s say you were watching a documentary about skydiving with some friends and a video of a person jumping out of a plane comes up on the screen. The dictionary definition of yabai is ‘dangerous’ or ‘risky’ but as a slang it’s an interjection to show you find something terrible or unbelievable in a bad way or impressive, cool or extraordinary.Īs we know, Japan loves ambiguity so you need to rely more on the context to understand what someone means when they say yabai! Yabai is a slang word used for reacting to something which surprises or shocks you like ‘woah!’ or ‘OMG’ in English. ![]()
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