Comments on: Oh crap, it’s 【やばい】

By: Aiden

Aiden — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 01:03:35 +0000

I learned not to say this out loud in my japanese class……he got P.O…… haha keep it up man

By: Tae Kim

Tae Kim — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 19:29:05 +0000

Saying ぜ is worthless is a bit extreme. You just have to know when and how to pull it off. :-)

By: Tomtom

Tomtom — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 05:32:41 +0000

First comment here, so I’ll start with the usual ‘this site rocks, keep the good stuff going’ motto.

About the やばい thing, I agree with tantan : I hear it mostly as やべー in a positive sense. Typically, you enter a nice party with lots of good looking girls : 「わーっ！やベー！」

I also +1 on jLo’s remark : you’ll get laughed at if you end your sentences with ぜ. I know because I did! You’ll sound like a small child or a manga otaku.

By: bryan allen

bryan allen — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 20:31:38 +0000

how do you say the language?

By: ゆかり

ゆかり — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 04:39:48 +0000

um, are you sure? because the sentence seemd to be more than obviously between friends (and i say like, like all the time with my friends, and these days i even say in real life ly~ek)

By: jLo

jLo — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 06:44:47 +0000

More than the yabai lesson, it’s this that caught my eye:

“…もう始まっちゃっているぜ”

Do you really know people who talk like this, adding ぜ to the end of their sentences? This is a perfect example of how to talk if you want to sound as if you’ve stepped straight from a comic book, as no educated person in the real world would speak this way. (Even London Boots made of this, man!)

Again, I’m just a visitor to this site, but if you want an alternate opinion, lose the ze, the zo, the zoi and all such variants — they’re worthless in everyday conversation, and will make you sound more like Tony Danza than an educated speaker of Japanese.

(Again, picking on the language, not the poster.)

By: tantan

tantan — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 00:19:22 +0000

Most of my friends use やべ in a positive way. Like when seeing a good looking girl, using it as the English equivalent of “She’s hot!”, or something like that. Also used when eating something really delicious and those types of situations.

By: Tae Kim

Tae Kim — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 09:32:32 +0000

やべー is a altered form of やばい. The word itself is the same. Change of い sound to え sound is common for very rough slang such as うるさい->うるせー

By: confused

confused — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 19:46:45 +0000

i came here looking for a different “oh crap” but this was interesting too.

PS: the “oh crap” i whas looking for i think sounded like “YA-Be”. it was writen in hiragana やべ
im still trying to track down wether or not it’s a common expression people use.
maybe “kuso” is probably more commony used . but thats probaby because my exposer to Japanese culture is limited. *cough* anime *cough*

By: Tae Kim

Tae Kim — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 09:07:20 +0000

Thanks, I hope to have another post up sometime this week.