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台無し (だいなし): mess, spoiled, (come to) nothing — Japanese vocabulary

台無し is read だいなし and means "mess, spoiled, (come to) nothing". JLPT N1 word with pitch accent and an example sentence.

台無し

Reading
だいなし · dainashi
Translation
mess, spoiled, (come to) nothing
Level
JLPT N1
Pitch accent
だいなしが

Example

風やら雨やらで旅行は台無しだった。

かぜやらあめやらでりょこうはだいなしだった。

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

Kanji in this word

  • 台 — platform, counter
  • 無 — nothing, without

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