ふん、ちぇっ
解説 Definition
pah は、嫌悪、軽蔑、いら立ち、または相手の考えを退ける気持ちを表す感動詞です。日本語の「ふん」「ちぇっ」などに近く、現代英語では古風、文学的、または芝居がかった響きを伴うことがあります。
An interjection expressing disgust, contempt, impatience, or dismissal. It is often used as a brief, forceful reaction to something regarded as unpleasant, foolish, or unworthy of serious attention.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
pah は嫌悪・軽蔑・いら立ちを息とともに吐き出す感動詞で、語根に分ける語ではありません。会話や物語で、気に入らないものを退ける「ふん」「ちぇっ」「うへえ」に近い反応として捉えます。bah や pooh と同類ですが、現代の日常会話では古風・芝居がかった響きがあります。
Treat pah as a written burst of breath rather than a word built from meaningful parts. Imagine a character turning away from something unpleasant or ridiculous and exhaling “Pah!” It can communicate disgust, contempt, impatience, or a dismissive “nonsense!” Compare it with bah, which commonly rejects or belittles something, and pooh, which can dismiss an idea as unimportant. Pah often sounds old-fashioned, literary, or theatrical in modern English, so you are more likely to meet it in dialogue in a story than in ordinary conversation.
例文
Pah! That excuse is ridiculous.
ふん！そんな言い訳はばかげています。
“Pah,” he said, dismissing their warning.
「ふん」と彼は言い、彼らの警告をはねつけました。
Pah! I have no patience for such nonsense.
ちぇっ！そんなばかげた話に付き合っていられません。
pah の類義語・関連語
pah の語源・成り立ち Etymology
pah は16世紀英語の感動詞で、嫌悪して何かを吐き出す息の音をまねた模倣語です。語根分解はありませんが、bah や pooh と近い仲間で、「うっ、いやだ」という反応がそのまま語になったと考えると意味がつかめます。
Pah has been recorded in English since the sixteenth century as an imitative interjection. Its sound represents a sharp expulsion of breath associated with disgust, contempt, or rejection, so it is not normally analyzed into roots or affixes. It belongs to the same broad group of expressive exclamations as bah and pooh, whose force comes chiefly from their sound and the speaker’s tone rather than from ordinary lexical formation.
同じレベルの語彙をもっと
外部辞書で調べる
この英単語をクイズで覚えよう