Illustration: In a small apartment dining room prepared for a birthday gathering, a host has just opened a cake box on the table. The cake has slid sideways during transport and collapsed against the cardboard, leaving its strawberries and cream in a disastrous heap.

JLPT N1pre-noun adjectivalLevel estimated by Bebop

とんだ

tonda

terrible, awful

Example sentences

  1. 雹で死ぬなんてとんだ誤算よ。

    Dying because of... hail? Now that’s a miscalculation and a half.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. こりゃ、とんだハプニングだな！

    This is terribly unexpected!

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 証人喚問しょうにんかんもんはとんだ騒さわぎになってしまいました。

    The confirmation hearings turned into a free-for-all.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

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