だんだん

See also: たんたん

Japanese

Etymology 1

Adjective

だんだん • (dandan) †-tari (adnominal だんだんとした (dandan to shita) or だんだんたる (dandan taru), adverbial だんだんと (dandan to) or だんだんとして (dandan to shite))

  1. 団々: very round of shape, such as the roundness of the full moon; full of dew, covered in dewdrops

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of だんだん – see the following entry.
【段々】
[adverb] gradually, step by step, one after another
[noun] steps and steps; the process of something
(This term, だんだん (dandan), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)

Etymology 3

Interjection

だんだん • (dandan) 

  1. (Umpaku, Izumo) thank you
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