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だめ: useless, no good, hopeless — Japanese vocabulary

だめ means "useless, no good, hopeless". JLPT N4 word with pitch accent and an example sentence.

だめ

Reading
だめ · dame
Translation
useless, no good, hopeless
Level
JLPT N4

Example

ここでたばこを吸ってはだめです。

ここでたばこをすってはだめです。

You can't smoke here.

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