JMdictDB - Japanese Dictionary Database

Entries

Search | Advanced Search | New Entry | Submissions | Help
Login for registered editors
Username:
Password:
jmdict 2275320 Active (id: 2100318)
善くもまあ
よくもまあ
1. [adv] [uk]
《emphatic》
▶ just how
▶ how (dare you)



History:
5. A 2021-04-17 23:52:12  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
I suspect it's an expression structurally.
4. A* 2021-04-17 08:02:33  Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
Tanaka
よくもまあそんなことが言えますね。
How dare you say such a thing?
chujiten
よくもまあそんなうそがつけたもんだ.
How could he have told such a lie!
(あんな危険なことをして)よくもまあ彼は死ななかったものだ.
I wonder (that) he didn't get killed.
  Diff:
@@ -11 +11 @@
-<pos>&exp;</pos>
+<pos>&adv;</pos>
@@ -13,2 +13,3 @@
-<gloss>how dare you!</gloss>
-<gloss>how can you have the nerve?</gloss>
+<s_inf>emphatic</s_inf>
+<gloss>just how</gloss>
+<gloss>how (dare you)</gloss>
3. A 2021-04-17 02:21:06  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
Not sure about "adv".
2. A* 2021-04-11 13:23:57  Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
よくも is adv. よくまあ is listed as a synonym to よくも in daijs. This should prob also be adv? 
also よくもまあ is listed as a synonym to よくぞ in daijs: [副]《「ぞ」は強意の係助詞》よくもまあ。本当によく。「善くぞがんばった」「善くぞ言って
くれた」 (so a more general gloss would prob. be better, e.g. "how (dare you)"
  Diff:
@@ -13,2 +13,2 @@
-<gloss>How dare you!</gloss>
-<gloss>How can you have the nerve?</gloss>
+<gloss>how dare you!</gloss>
+<gloss>how can you have the nerve?</gloss>
1. A 2008-05-19 00:00:00 
  Comments:
Entry created

View entry in alternate formats: jel | edict | jmdict xml | jmnedict xml | jmdictdb xml