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ただの一度も (tadanoichidomo) Japanese meaning | Kotomora

ただの一いち度ども

Meanings

1

(not) even once; (not) ever

Fixed expression used with a negative verb to emphasize that something has never happened, not even a single time.

彼かれはただの一いち度ども約やく束そくを破やぶったことがない。
He has never broken a promise, not even once.
ただの一いち度ども海かい外がいに行いったことがありません。
I have never been abroad, not even once.

Kanji

一one, one radical (no.1)
度degrees, occurrence, time

Related words

一いち度ども
一度も is the more common and neutral way to say 'not even once' with a negative verb. ただの一度も adds extra emphasis, often with a stronger emotional or rhetorical tone.

Etymology

A fixed emphatic expression combining ただの (mere, just) with 一度も (even once). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but it serves as an intensified version of 一度も.