Illustration: In a Japanese home kitchen, a carefully decorated celebration cake has slid from its stand and landed upside down across the open dishwasher door. Flattened cream flowers, crushed fruit, and the empty stand show what has been lost.

JLPT N2na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

台だい無なし

dainashi

ruined, spoiled

Often used as 台無しになる or 台無しにする. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 風かぜやら雨あめやらで旅行りょこうは台無だいなしだった。

    What with the wind and the rain, our trip was spoiled.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. この赤色あかいろで柄全体がらぜんたいがだいなしだ。

    The red kills the whole pattern.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 風かぜやら雨あめやらで、我々われわれの散歩さんぽは台無だいなしだった。

    Our walk was spoiled by the wind and the rain.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 台無

  • 台pedestal; a standOnダイ・タイKunうてな・われ・つかさ
  • 無nothingness; noneOnム・ブKunない

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