bananas
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bəˈnɑː.nəz/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (US) enPR: bə-nă'nəz, IPA(key): /bəˈnæ.nəz/
Noun edit
bananas
Adjective edit
bananas (comparative more bananas, superlative most bananas)
- Crazy, mad, nuts.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:insane
- 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 377:
- I am astonished, really astonished, that you didn't put away some dough. You must be bananas.
- 2023 July 10, James Poniewozik, “The Twitter Watch Party Is Over”, in The New York Times[1]:
- The ensuing snarknado also seemed to goose the TV ratings. Hundreds of thousands of viewers switched on the movie after it began, suggesting that they’d gotten wind through Twitter of the bananas spectacle that was unfolding.
- 2023 October 5, Damian Carrington, “‘Gobsmackingly bananas’: scientists stunned by planet’s record September heat”, in The Guardian[2], UK:
- “September was, in my professional opinion as a climate scientist, absolutely gobsmackingly bananas,” said Zeke Hausfather, at the Berkeley Earth climate data project.
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Audio (file)
Verb edit
bananas
- second-person singular past historic of bananer
Lithuanian edit
Noun edit
banãnas m (plural banãnai) stress pattern 2
- banana (fruit)
Declension edit
Declension of banãnas
singular (vienaskaita) | plural (daugiskaita) | |
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nominative (vardininkas) | banãnas | banãnai |
genitive (kilmininkas) | banãno | banãnų |
dative (naudininkas) | banãnui | banãnams |
accusative (galininkas) | banãną | bananùs |
instrumental (įnagininkas) | bananù | banãnais |
locative (vietininkas) | bananè | banãnuose |
vocative (šauksmininkas) | banãne | banãnai |
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
Probably from English.
Adjective edit
bananas (indeclinable)
Usage notes edit
Not an officially recognised word, but it sees a lot of use.
Synonyms edit
- (bananas, crazy): gal, sprø, kokkeliko, klin kokos, ikke riktig, ikke riktig klok
Derived terms edit
- gå bananas (“go bananas”)
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
Probably from English.
Adjective edit
bananas (indeclinable?)
Usage notes edit
As above.
Derived terms edit
- gå bananas (“go bananas”)
Portuguese edit
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bananas
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bananas
Welsh edit
Pronunciation edit
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /baˈnanas/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /baˈna(ː)naz/
Noun edit
bananas f pl
Mutation edit
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
bananas | fananas | mananas | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |