だんだん

See also: たんたん

Japanese

Etymology 1

Adjective

だんだん • (dandan) ^†-tari (adnominal だんだんとした (dandan to shita) or だんだんたる (dandan taru), adverbial だんだんと (dandan to) or だんだんとして (dandan to shite))

1. 団々: very round of shape, such as the roundness of the full moon; full of dew, covered in dewdrops

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of だんだん – see the following entry.

【段々】 [adverb] gradually, step by step, one after another [noun] steps and steps; the process of something

(This term, だんだん (dandan), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)

Etymology 3

Interjection

だんだん • (dandan) 

1. (Umpaku, Izumo) thank you