深ふか田だ

also: ふけだ · ふけた

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だ

Freq.FrequencyTop 20,000

Meanings

noun

muddy rice field

A rice paddy with deep, soft mud; often implies a field that is difficult to work in.

深ふか田だに足あしを取とられて、なかなか前まえに進すすめなかった。
My feet got stuck in the muddy rice field, and I couldn't move forward easily.

Usage patterns

深ふか田だに足あしを取とられるto get one's foot stuck in a muddy rice field
深ふか田だに足あしを取とられて、なかなか前まえに進すすめなかった。
My foot got stuck in the muddy paddy, and I could barely move forward.
深ふか田だで稲いね刈かりをするto harvest rice in a muddy paddy field
深ふか田だで稲いね刈かりをするのは重じゅう労ろう働どうだ。
Harvesting rice in a muddy paddy is hard labor.

Kanji

深deep, heighten, intensify
田rice field, rice paddy

Related words

田たんぼN2
田んぼ is the general word for any rice field, while 深田 specifically denotes one with deep, soft mud that is hard to work in.
泥どろ田た
泥田 simply emphasizes that a field is muddy, whereas 深田 highlights the depth of the mud rather than just its presence.

Opposites

乾かん田でん
乾田 is a well-drained, firm rice field that can be worked dry, the opposite of the soft, waterlogged 深田.

Written forms

深田Usage100%
- ふかだ
  Standard kanji spelling for the modern reading ふかだ.
- ふけだ
  out-dated reading
  Obsolete reading; it is out-dated or obsolete kana usage.
- ふけた
  out-dated reading
  Obsolete reading; it is out-dated or obsolete kana usage.
ふけた
out-dated reading
ふけだ
out-dated reading

Etymology

Compound of 深 (fuka, 'deep') and 田 (ta, 'rice field'), with rendaku voicing of 田 to だ. The obsolete readings ふけだ and ふけた reflect older phonetic forms.