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JLPT N1 · Noun

旦那 (danna)

旦那 (だんな, danna) is a Japanese noun meaning “master (of a house, shop, etc.)”. It appears in JLPT N1 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading
だんな
Romaji
danna
Word class
Noun
Level
JLPT N1 (unofficial)

Meaning

  1. master (of a house, shop, etc.) · noun
  2. husband · noun · familiar
  3. sir; boss; master; governor · noun · used to address a male patron, customer, or person of high status
  4. patron of a mistress, geisha, bar or nightclub hostess; sugar daddy · noun
  5. alms; almsgiving; almsgiver · noun · orig. meaning; usu. written as 檀那

Example sentences

その醜い肉屋の旦那はあの想像上の怪物に似ている。
That ugly butcher resembles that fictional monster.
Tatoeba #209431
旦那も子供の引き取り権を望んでいた。
Her husband also wanted custody of the children.
Tatoeba #127374

Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.

Kanji in 旦那

旦
daybreak, dawn, morningタン・ダン・あき.らか・あきら · 5 strokes
那
what?ナ・ダ・なに・なんぞ · 7 strokes

Related words

Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 旦那.

一旦いったんonce

Source: JMdict entry 1418410 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.