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無駄遣い (むだづかい): waste money on, squander money on — Japanese vocabulary

無駄遣い is read むだづかい and means "waste money on, squander money on". JLPT N1 word with pitch accent and an example sentence.

無駄遣い

Reading
むだづかい · mudazukai
Translation
waste money on, squander money on
Level
JLPT N1
Pitch accent
むだづかいが

Example

なんてひどいむだ使いでしょう。

なんてひどいむだづかいでしょう。

What a fearful waste of money!

Kanji in this word

  • 無 — nothing, without
  • 駄 — Burdensome, Pack Horse, Horse Load
  • 遣 — Dispatch, Despatch, Send

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