"やだ" meaning in Japanese

See やだ in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Interjection

IPA: [ja̠da̠] Forms: やだ [canonical], ヤダ [canonical], yada [romanization]
Etymology: Derived as a shortening of いや (iya, “yuck; bad, disgusting”) + copula ("to be" verb) だ (da). Etymology templates: {{ja-r|いや||yuck; bad, disgusting}} いや (iya, “yuck; bad, disgusting”), {{ja-r|だ}} だ (da) Head templates: {{ja-pos|interjection|ヤダ}} やだ or ヤダ • (yada)
  1. (informal, childish or feminine) Contraction of いやだ (iya da), Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, childish, contraction, feminine, informal Alternative form of: いやだ (extra: (iya da),)
    Sense id: en-やだ-ja-intj-0KtLCV4u
  2. goodness (exclamation of surprise)
    Sense id: en-やだ-ja-intj-0NtP6KSH Categories (other): Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese links with redundant alt parameters, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 0 100 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant alt parameters: 0 100 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 0 100 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys: 0 100 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 0 100 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 0 100
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: やーだ (yāda), いやん (iyan), いやーん (iyān)

Alternative forms

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Download raw JSONL data for やだ meaning in Japanese (2.4kB)

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