bananas

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See also: BANANAs, banānas, and banānās

English

Pronunciation

Noun

bananas

  1. plural of banana

Adjective

bananas (comparative more bananas, superlative most bananas)

  1. 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:
      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, 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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French

Pronunciation

Verb

bananas

  1. second-person singular past historic of bananer

Lithuanian

Noun

banãnas m (plural banãnai) stress pattern 2

  1. banana (fruit)

Declension

Declension of banãnas
singular (vienaskaita) plural (daugiskaita)
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

Etymology

Probably from English.

Adjective

bananas (indeclinable)

  1. bananas, crazy

Usage notes

Not an officially recognised word, but it sees a lot of use.

Synonyms

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Probably from English.

Adjective

bananas (indeclinable?)

  1. bananas, crazy

Usage notes

As above.

Derived terms

Portuguese

Noun

bananas

  1. plural of banana

Spanish

Noun

bananas

  1. plural of banana

Welsh

Pronunciation

Noun

bananas f pl

  1. plural of banana

Mutation

Welsh mutation
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.
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