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駄目 だめ N4

  1. broken; no good; not serving its purpose; useless
  2. hopeless; in vain; purposeless; wasted
  3. cannot; must not; not allowed
  4. intersection owned by neither player at the end of a game; neutral point
  5. no!; stop!

駄目で元々 だめでもともと

  1. giving something a try because it will not do any harm

駄目になる だめになる

  1. to break; to fail; to go bad; to go wrong; to spoil

駄目を押す だめをおす

  1. to make doubly sure; to make sure

駄目詰め だめづめ

  1. filling dame points; filling neutral points

駄目駄目 だめだめ

  1. completely worthless; entirely useless
  2. don't!; no no
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