![]() ![]() There’s more to the story though: “meccha” was originally a word primarily used among youths in Kansai dialect (関西弁). But “meccha” itself is primarily used to mean “to a great extent”. Besides meaning “to an great extent”, all these words can be used to mean “unreasonable” or “chaotic” (with the longer two words having a more emphatic feel). “Meccha” comes from “mecha”––I’m talking about Japanese here, not the English loanword about giant robots––and these in turn come from the words “mechakucha” and “mechamecha” (I’m not sure which was first historically). Now I’d like to talk about the origin of this word, since it affects the nuance. This goes the same for “meccha”, for example: You may recall that adverbs can modify not only adjectives (“oishii” is an adjective), but also verbs. Other Japanese words that can be used in a similar way include すごく (sugoku), 非常に (hijou ni) and とても(totemo). It is generally used as an adverb to mean “to a great extent” or “extremely”. The meaning of めっちゃ is pretty straightforward and quite easy to use. The English word “mecha” sounds more like “meka” (メカ), whereas the Japanese word “meccha” sounds like “me-cha”, where there is a pause between the syllables and the “cha” sounds like it does in the phrase “cha-cha-cha”. Because it resembles the English word “mecha” (a loan word referring to giant robots) you may think “meccha” is similar, but in fact the sound of the “cha” is different. ![]() In this post I’ll go over the explicit meaning first, then give some more information about the history and nuances of the word.įirst, I wanted to clarify the pronunciation for this word. “Meccha” (generally written in hiragana as めっちゃ, though occasionally in katakana as メッチャ) is one such word. ![]() When learning a foreign language it is good to understand both, and sometimes there is much more to the nuance than the explicit meaning. Words generally have an explicit meaning (what it says in the dictionary) in addition to an implicit meaning, also called the nuance or atmosphere of the word. ![]()
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