I Love Kanjiだぶだぶ (dabudabu)
だぶだぶ is a Japanese な-adjective meaning “loose (of clothing); baggy”. It appears in JLPT N1 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.
- Reading
- だぶだぶ
- Romaji
- dabudabu
- Word class
- Noun + する (suru verb)
- Level
- JLPT N1 (unofficial)
Meaning
- loose (of clothing); baggy · な-adjective, noun taking の, adverb, adverb (taking と), suru verb · onomatopoeia / mimetic
- flabby; saggy · adverb, adverb (taking と), suru verb · onomatopoeia / mimetic
- sloshing; slopping; overflowing · adverb, adverb (taking と), な-adjective, suru verb · onomatopoeia / mimetic
- plenty (of pouring a liquid); drowning (e.g. in a sauce) · adverb, adverb (taking と) · onomatopoeia / mimetic
Example sentences
Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.
Conjugation of だぶだぶ
Noun + する (suru verb). Plain and polite forms below; try any other word in the Japanese verb conjugator.
| Form | Japanese | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| Dictionary | だぶだぶする | だぶだぶする dabudabusuru |
| Polite (~masu) | だぶだぶします | だぶだぶします dabudabushimasu |
| Negative | だぶだぶしない | だぶだぶしない dabudabushinai |
| Polite negative | だぶだぶしません | だぶだぶしません dabudabushimasen |
| Past | だぶだぶした | だぶだぶした dabudabushita |
| Polite past | だぶだぶしました | だぶだぶしました dabudabushimashita |
| Negative past | だぶだぶしなかった | だぶだぶしなかった dabudabushinakatta |
| Te-form | だぶだぶして | だぶだぶして dabudabushite |
| Potential | だぶだぶできる | だぶだぶできる dabudabudekiru |
| Passive | だぶだぶされる | だぶだぶされる dabudabusareru |
| Causative | だぶだぶさせる | だぶだぶさせる dabudabusaseru |
| Volitional | だぶだぶしよう | だぶだぶしよう dabudabushiyou |
| Imperative | だぶだぶしろ | だぶだぶしろ dabudabushiro |
| Conditional (~ba) | だぶだぶすれば | だぶだぶすれば dabudabusureba |
Source: JMdict entry 1007430 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.