List: adjective (keiyoushi)
Adjectives finishing in い before they modify a noun.
popular JLPT N5 い adjective adjective (generic) slang
- thin, slender, fine
- unlucky
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form JLPT N5 い adjective adjective (generic)
- few, little, small (amount), low, scarce, insufficient, seldom, rare
popular search-only kana form search-only kanji form JLPT N3 い adjective adjective (generic)
- wonderful, splendid, magnificent
popular search-only kana form rarely used kanji form JLPT N5 い adjective adjective (generic)
- fast, quick, rapid, swift, speedy, brisk, prompt
- early, soon, earlier than usual
- premature, too soon, too early
- easy, simple, quick, fast
- as soon as ..., the moment ..., the instant ...
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N5 い adjective adjective (generic) colloquial
- painful, sore
- cringy, embarrassing
popular JLPT N5 い adjective adjective (generic)
- white
popular い adjective adjective (generic)
- unlimited, endless, boundless, infinite
popular rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form い adjective adjective (generic)
- brilliant, glorious, glittering, bright, splendid (e.g. achievement, success), promising (e.g. future)
popular JLPT N5 い adjective adjective (generic)
- strong, potent, competent, domineering, tough
- strong, brawny, powerful, healthy, rugged
- good (at), skilled, knowledgeable
- being able to handle, know how to deal (with), durable (against), resistant (to), resilient
- firm, rigid, solid
- intense, strong, fierce, high
- dependable, trustworthy
popular JLPT N3 い adjective adjective (generic) suffix
- painful, difficult, tough, hard
- distressing, (psychologically) difficult, stressful, awkward (e.g. position)
- straitened (circumstances), tight (financial situation), needy, struggling
- strained (interpretation, explanation, etc.), lame (e.g. excuse), forced (e.g. smile), far-fetched
- hard to do, unpleasant