いい加減
いいかげん
half-hearted; irresponsible; sloppy; (adverb) fairly, pretty much; about time
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Examples
いい加減な話はやめろ。
いいかげんなはなしはやめろ。
Don't give me that nonsense.
彼の仕事はいい加減で、いつもやり直しになる。
かれのしごとはいいかげんで、いつもやりなおしになる。
His work is sloppy and always has to be done again.
いい加減にしなさい。もう十分でしょう。
いいかげんにしなさい。もうじゅうぶんでしょう。
That's enough of that. You've had quite enough.
風呂の湯加減はちょうどいい加減だった。
ふろのゆかげんはちょうどいいかげんだった。
The bath was heated to just the right temperature.
Common patterns
- いい加減にする
- to cut it out; to stop it
- いい加減な返事
- a non-committal, careless answer
- いい加減うんざりだ
- I'm pretty well fed up by now
Memory tip
Literally "a good degree", the word split in two directions: the positive "just right" survives mainly in 湯加減, while the everyday meaning is the sarcastic one — careless and slapdash. いい加減にしろ is a sharp "that's enough".
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