Kansaibenkyou.net - irregular adjectives

くだらん

Yukawa Keiko — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 18:43:36 +0000

worthless; silly; not important

下らん

くだらない

下らない

そんなくだらんことばっかり言うなや。
Stop talking about silly things.

Yukawa Keiko — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 03:52:28 +0000

good; fine

いい

見てみ！あそこにええ男おるで！
Look! There's a nice looking guy over there.

Just like いい in standard Japanese, ええ combines with other words to make another word such as かっこええ.

Moreover, like いい, there are no conjugations such as えかった and えければ--use よかった and よければ.

Yukawa Keiko — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 05:55:36 +0000

bad; impossible; hopeless; no; cannot

だめ

駄目

そんなことしたらあかん。
Don't do that!

A: テストどうやった？
B: あかんかってん。

A : How was the test?
B: It was no good.

あかん、また、ねぼうしてもうた。
Agh! I overslept again.

週末も仕事せなあかんねん。
I have to work during weekends.

"あかん" is one of the most recognizable Kansai words. One of the the reasons for its ubiquity are its many uses. See examples above.

あかん can also be used in certain verb constructions, for example:

週末も仕事せなあかんねん。
I have to work during weekends.

See the grammar page for せなあかん for more information.