JLPT N5 vocabulary
駄目: meaning, reading and conjugation
Reading and pitch accent
だめ2Odaka · falls after
na-adjective
Meaning
- no good, not serving its purpose, useless, broken
- hopeless, wasted, in vain, purposeless
- cannot, must not, not allowed
- (Go) neutral point, an intersection owned by neither player at the end of a game
- (interjection) no!, stop!
Conjugation
| Form | Affirmative | Negative |
|---|---|---|
| Basics | ||
| Plain present普通形 | 駄目 | 駄目 |
| Plain past過去形 | 駄目 | 駄目 |
| Polite presentです形 | 駄目 | 駄目 |
| Polite pastでした形 | 駄目 | 駄目 |
| Te-formて形 | 駄目 | 駄目 |
| Modifying | ||
| Before a noun連体形 | 駄目 | —not in common use |
| As an adverb連用形 | 駄目 | —not in common use |
| Conditions and moods | ||
| If (-ba)ば形 | 駄目 | 駄目 |
| If / when (-tara)たら形 | 駄目 | 駄目 |
Example sentences
お兄さんは優秀だった。それに引き換え私はだめだ。
You were excellent, big brother. I, on the other hand, am no good.