manana

1. 1.

   an indefinite time in the future

   Broaderfuture

Other forms of manana

plural

mananas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about manana

What does manana mean?

manana means "an indefinite time in the future".

How many syllables are in manana?

manana has 3 syllables: ma-na-na. The stress falls on "ma".

Is manana a common word?

manana is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.