安打(あんだ)

あんだ
noun
base hit (baseball)
1. base hit; hit (baseball)
In baseball, a hit that allows the batter to reach base safely. The Japanese translation of the English baseball term 'hit.'
安打(あんだ)を打(う)つ。
To get a base hit.
今日(きょう)の試合(しあい)で三(さん)安打(あんだ)を記録(きろく)した。
He recorded three hits in today's game.
イチロー選手(せんしゅ)はメジャーリーグ通算(つうさん)三千(さんぜん)安打(あんだ)を達成(たっせい)した偉大(いだい)な打者(だしゃ)だ。
Ichiro is a great batter who achieved 3,000 career hits in Major League Baseball.

Composed of 安(あん) (safe) + 打(だ) (hit, strike). A fundamental baseball term. The word ヒット (from English 'hit') is also widely used and often interchangeable in casual contexts.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS:

  • 安打(あんだ)を打(う)つ — to get a hit
  • 安打(あんだ)を放(はな)つ — to deliver a hit (more formal)
  • 安打(あんだ)数(すう) — number of hits
  • 安打(あんだ)製造機(せいぞうき) — hit machine (figurative, prolific hitter)

TYPES OF HITS:

  • 単打(たんだ) — single
  • 二塁打(にるいだ) — double
  • 三塁打(さんるいだ) — triple
  • 本塁打(ほんるいだ) — home run

SIMILAR WORDS:

  • ヒット — hit; loanword, used interchangeably in casual speech
  • 打撃(だげき) — batting, hitting; broader term for the act of batting
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