► 名詞
冗談 [(4)じょうだん] meaning: joke rank: 1
☆ 冗談だってば！ ⇨ It’s a joke! I’m just kidding
☆ 冗談にも程がある ⇨ Jokes have limits.
冗談 [(4)じょうだん] [冗談を言う] meaning: joke rank: 1
☆ 彼はいつも冗談を言っている ⇨ He is always cracking jokes
冗談 [(4)じょうだん] [冗談を飛ばす] meaning: joke rank: 1
☆ 彼等は冗談を飛ばし合った ⇨ They cracked jokes in all directions
冗談 [(4)じょうだん] meaning: nonsense rank: 1
☆ 冗談じゃない！ ⇨ That is not a joke! That’s not funny at all! That’s outrageous!
冗談 [(4)じょうだん] [冗談を言う] meaning: nonsense rank: 1
☆ 冗談言わないでよ ⇨ Stop talking nonsense
More examples:
- 彼は上司の冗談に愛想笑いした ⇨ He fake-laughed at his boss’s joke
- 落ちの無い冗談 ⇨ A joke without a punchline
- 冗談も大概にしろ ⇨ Keep your jokes at a moderate level. Stop joking
- まさか冗談でしょう？ ⇨ You must be joking, right?
- 彼はいつも冗談を飛ばしている ⇨ He is always cracking jokes
- 彼は冗談じみた言い方をした ⇨ He said so with a joke-like tone
- 程度の低い冗談 ⇨ A low-class, bad-taste, joke
- 緊張を解すための冗談 ⇨ A joke to loosen tension
- 彼の冗談は全く受けずに惨めだった ⇨ His joke fell flat completely and it was humiliating
- 冗談は抜きにして本当にガス腹で苦しい ⇨ I am not joking, I am really struggling with gassy stomach
- さっきのは冗談だよ ⇨ (What I said) earlier was a joke
- 際どい冗談 ⇨ A risque joke
- 彼の冗談はどっちらけだった ⇨ His joke completely fell flat
- それは友達同士でしか通じない冗談だ ⇨ That’s a kind of joke only understood among friends
- 彼は冗談を交えて話した ⇨ He talked along with some jokes