► 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:
- 冗談も程々にしろ ⇨ Keep your joking moderate. Cut your crap
 - あいつの下品な冗談には気分が悪くなる ⇨ His vulgar joke makes me sick
 - 悪趣味な冗談 ⇨ Jokes with poor taste. Offensive jokes
 - 彼は上司の冗談に馬鹿笑いする ⇨ He laughs like an idiot at his boss’s jokes
 - 彼の冗談は全然おかしくない ⇨ His jokes are not funny at all
 - 彼は「…」と冗談半分で言った ⇨ He said “…” half-jokingly
 - その冗談はもう古いよ ⇨ That joke is old now
 - 彼の冗談に皆大爆笑した ⇨ Everybody laughed out loud at his joke
 - 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
 - 程度の低い冗談 ⇨ A low-class, bad-taste, joke
 - 彼の話は真面目なのか冗談なのか分からない ⇨ I can’t tell what he said was serious or just a joke
 - 趣味の悪い冗談 ⇨ A joke with very poor taste
 - 彼の冗談はどっちらけだった ⇨ His joke completely fell flat
 - 冗談は止してよ ⇨ Stop kidding. Cut your crap
 - 下品な冗談 ⇨ A vulgar, tasteless, joke