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Podcast 44: What does “Hampa nai” mean? (Shorts)

Learn Japanese Pod

Alex Brooke

Education, Study, Japanese, Tokyo, Language Courses, Osaka, Podcast, Jlpt, Japan

4.8917 Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, Ami Alex tell you the meaning of 半端ない Hanpa nai  and how to use it naturally in a conversation in Japanese.

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Transcript

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0:15.6

You're listening to learn Japanese pod, the podcast that helps you sound more natural and fluent in Japanese and you are also listening to the Learn Japanese Pod Shorts edition of the podcast where we take a lightning quick look at a completely random word or phrase to amaze surprise and impress your Japanese friends

0:29.0

So much that they fall off their chairs and gasp Aitsus suge?

0:35.0

Oh!

0:37.0

Dokodair boy, Tanao.

0:40.0

Ami Sensi, how are you today?

0:42.0

What's new?

0:43.0

Good, not much. How are you today?

0:45.6

I'm very good, thank you.

0:47.4

Good, good.

0:48.4

And I'm in a good mood.

0:50.9

And I'm ready to do this Learn Japanese pod short. Me too. So I'm

0:56.6

sense a what on earth is today's phrase. Today's phrase is, Humpanite, which means something like incredible, amazing, awesome or unbelievable.

1:12.8

It comes from the term

1:15.0

to the hampah, which means half-hearted, half-asked, careless, or incomplete,

1:22.4

something like that. So if you use the or incomplete.

1:22.6

something like that.

1:23.3

So if you use the negative form,

1:26.0

which is chuteo hampah, Janai,

1:29.2

or simply hampanai,

1:32.2

it means the opposite, which is well done, amazing or epic.

1:37.0

Right, there you go.

1:40.0

And you do hear this a lot, it's quite casual I guess, Hampanoi.

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