Hanamaruhanamaru

だいじょうぶ

大丈夫

okay / all right

daijoubu

JLPT
N5
Frequency
#1,654

Meanings

  1. 1
    safe; secure; soundadj-na
  2. 2
    certainly; surely; undoubtedlyadv
  3. 3
    no thanks; I'm good; that's alrightintadj-na

JMdict 1414150

In a sentence

だいじょうぶ大丈夫okayけが怪我injuryないnone

Are you okay? Are you hurt?

How it works

Two quick casual questions with nothing but rising intonation to mark them — no question word, no (question) needed. The first is just 大丈夫だいじょうぶ (okay) on its own, asked as “you okay?”. In the second, (topic) raises 怪我けが (injury) as the topic, and ない (isn't, none) is the plain negative of ある (to exist) — literally “as for injury, there isn't any?” The plain forms make it sound close and worried, the way you'd speak to a friend.

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