The Kansai word for だめ: “no good”, “not allowed”, “oh no”. You will hear it from any Osaka-based comedian.
Kansai dialect for だめ. Warm and casual.
Someone phones Kenji partway through a job carrying a package for big money.
that's totally not okay, right?
Textbook絶対にだめですよね。Kansai 「あかん」 replaces 「だめ」; 「絶対」 drops 「に」, and plain 「よな」 seeks agreement like polite 「ですよね」.
In a murder-mystery parody, one person scolds everyone in the room for acting like they have nothing to do with it.
Not allowed.
Textbookだめですよ。Kansai 「あかん」 replaces 「だめ」: 「だめだよ」 becomes 「あかんよ」, keeping 「よ」 to scold the whole room.
At a group gathering, someone blurts out that the shared portion is way too small.
You can't go saying it out loud!
Textbook口に出してはいけませんよ。"〜てはだめ" → Kansai "〜ちゃあかん": "ては" contracts to "ちゃ", "だめ" becomes "あかん"; final "て" adds "I'm telling you".
A customer has filled a stamp card for a reward, but the clerk does not know what the reward is and offers to think of one.
You definitely can't be thinking of it now!
Textbook今考えては絶対にだめでしょう。'考えたらあかん' is Kansai for '考えてはだめ' ('you mustn't think'); 'やろ' is Kansai 'だろう'.
From other routines in the library. Automatic transcripts, not yet checked line by line.
あかん means “no good / you can’t” (Kansai). The Kansai word for だめ: “no good”, “not allowed”, “oh no”. You will hear it from any Osaka-based comedian.
With friends: OK. With coworkers: careful. With a boss or teacher: avoid. Kansai dialect for だめ. Warm and casual.
In 1,905 live comedy routines, あかん appears in 164 lines from 44 comedians.