List: adjective (keiyoushi)
Adjectives finishing in い before they modify a noun.
popular JLPT N5 い adjective adjective (generic)
- weak, frail, delicate, tender, unskilled, weak (wine)
popular JLPT N5 い adjective adjective (generic)
- small, little, tiny
- slight, below average (in degree, amount, etc.), minor, small
- low (e.g. sound), soft (e.g. voice)
- unimportant, petty, insignificant, trifling, trivial
- young, juvenile
popular JLPT N3 い adjective adjective (generic)
- close (e.g. friend), familiar, friendly, intimate
- familiar (e.g. story), well-known (to one)
- close (relatives), closely related
popular JLPT N5 い adjective adjective (generic)
- spicy, hot
- salty
- harsh (criticism), severe (punishment), strict
- painful, bitter, difficult, tough
popular JLPT N4 い adjective adjective (generic)
- right, correct
- proper, righteous, just, honest, truthful, lawful
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N2 い adjective adjective (generic)
- dim, gloomy
popular い adjective adjective (generic)
- difficult, tough, formidable, redoubtable, stubborn
popular い adjective adjective (generic)
- brand new
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N1 い adjective adjective (generic) colloquial
- casual, unconcerned, nonchalant, indifferent, offhand
- ordinary, normal, regular, everyday, unremarkable
popular JLPT N5 い adjective adjective (generic)
- heavy, weighty
- heavy (feeling), depressed, gloomy, blue, uneasy
- slow, sluggish, lumbering, ponderous, clumsy
- important (position, responsibility, etc.), serious, grave
- serious (punishment, illness, etc.), severe, critical
- solid, established, dignified, sensible