みたいな (mitai na)

Meaning

  1. something like that
  2. sort of like that
  3. similar to that

All JLPT 4 grammar : みたいな(みたいな, mitai na), something like that; sort of like that; similar to that; in that vein, [Expression]

Colloquialism

Example

日本語意味
論文だなんて・・・私が書いてるのは、ただの随想、エッセイみたいなもんですよ。Theses! … What I write are just my ramblings, they’re just something like essays.
似てくると言うよりは類友みたいな感じですね。Rather than coming to resemble each other, it feels like they are birds of a feather.
お兄ちゃん、このお魚本当に美味しいの?黒鯛が極道に落ちて、全国指名手配されたみたいなお魚だよ?Hey, is this fish tasty for real? It looks like a black porgy who’d fallen in with mobsters and been put on the country’s most wanted list!?
「ちゃちなおもちゃみたいな」と言うのは、ちゃちなおもちゃに対して失礼です。To say that it gives the impression of a cheap toy is unfair to cheap toys.

Vocabulary

日本語ローマ字意味
bunsentence
論文ronbunthesis, essay
watashiI, me
感じkanjifeeling, sense
tomofriend, companion
言うiuto say, to utter
gokuquite, very
naname, given name
全国zenkokucountrywide, nationwide
ajiflavor, taste
yubifinger, toe
aniolder brother
honbook
本当hontoutruth, reality
michiroad, street, way
美味しいoishiidelicious, tasty
sakanafish
tehand
taiopposite; opposition; versus; vs.; v.
失礼shitsureidiscourtesy, impoliteness

Kanji

漢字おんよみくんよみ意味
ショか.く, -が.き, -がきwrite
ブン,モンふみ, あやsentence, literature
わたくし, わたしprivate, me
ロンあげつら.うargument, discourse
ソウ,ソおも.うconcept, think, idea
ユウともfriend
ゲン,ゴンい.う, ことsay, word
に.る, ひ.るresemble, imitate
カンemotion, feeling
ルイたぐ.いsort, variety, kind
ホンもとbook, present, main, origin, true, real
コクくにcountry
メイ,ミョウな, -なname, noted, distinguished, reputation
ドウ,トウみち, いうroad-way, course
ギョうお, さかな, -ざかなfish
ケイ,キョウあにelder brother
コクくろ, くろ.ずむ, くろ.いblack
あじ, あじ.わうflavor, taste
シュ,ズて, て-, -てhand
ビ,ミうつく.しいbeauty, beautiful
ハイくば.るdistribute, rationing
ラクお.ちる, お.ち, お.とすfall, drop, come down
ゆび, さ.す, -さ.しfinger, point to
トウあ.たる, あ.たり, あ.てるhit, right, appropriate
ゼンまった.く, すべ.てwhole, entire, all
レイ,ライsalute, bow, ceremony
シツうしな.う, う.せるlose, error, fault
タイ,ツイあいて, こた.える, そろ.いopposite, compare

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