I Love Kanji電波 (denpa)
電波 (でんぱ, denpa) is a Japanese な-adjective meaning “radio wave; reception”. It appears in JLPT N2 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.
- Reading
- でんぱ
- Romaji
- denpa
- Word class
- な-adjective
- Level
- JLPT N2 (unofficial)
Meaning
- radio wave; reception; signal · noun
- saying strange things · noun, な-adjective · slang
Example sentences
彼の携帯電話は他の電話を妨害する電波を出した。
His mobile phone produced radio emissions that interfered with other phones.
Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.
Conjugation of 電波
な-adjective. Plain and polite forms below; try any other word in the Japanese verb conjugator.
| Form | Japanese | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| Present (plain) | 電波だ | でんぱだ denpada |
| Present (polite) | 電波です | でんぱです denpadesu |
| Negative | 電波じゃない | でんぱじゃない denpajanai |
| Past | 電波だった | でんぱだった denpadatta |
| Negative past | 電波じゃなかった | でんぱじゃなかった denpajanakatta |
| Te-form | 電波で | でんぱで denpade |
| Before a noun | 電波な | でんぱな denpana |
| Adverb (~ni) | 電波に | でんぱに denpani |
Kanji in 電波
Related words
Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 電波.
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Source: JMdict entry 1443720 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.