I Love Kanji無駄 (muda)
無駄 (むだ, muda) is a Japanese な-adjective meaning “futility; waste”. It appears in JLPT N3 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.
- Reading
- むだ
- Romaji
- muda
- Word class
- な-adjective
- Level
- JLPT N3 (unofficial)
Meaning
- futility; waste; uselessness; pointlessness; idleness · noun, な-adjective
Example sentences
Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.
Conjugation of 無駄
な-adjective. Plain and polite forms below; try any other word in the Japanese verb conjugator.
| Form | Japanese | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| Present (plain) | 無駄だ | むだだ mudada |
| Present (polite) | 無駄です | むだです mudadesu |
| Negative | 無駄じゃない | むだじゃない mudajanai |
| Past | 無駄だった | むだだった mudadatta |
| Negative past | 無駄じゃなかった | むだじゃなかった mudajanakatta |
| Te-form | 無駄で | むだで mudade |
| Before a noun | 無駄な | むだな mudana |
| Adverb (~ni) | 無駄に | むだに mudani |
Kanji in 無駄
Related words
Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 無駄.
無くすなくすto lose (something)無理むりunreasonable無くなるなくなるto be lost (e.g. luggage)無むnothing有無うむexistence or nonexistence無視むしdisregarding無料むりょうfree (of charge)無しなしwithout無事ぶじsafety無ぶun-無限むげんinfinity無地むじplain無数むすうinnumerable御無沙汰ごぶさたnot writing or contacting for a while
Source: JMdict entry 1530510 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.