List: adjective (keiyoushi)
Adjectives finishing in い before they modify a noun.
popular JLPT N5 い adjective adjective (generic)
- narrow, confined, small, cramped
- limited, narrow-minded, confining
popular JLPT N2 い adjective adjective (generic)
- noisy, boisterous
- turbulent (era, etc.), troubled
popular search-only kana form JLPT N1 い adjective adjective (generic)
- striking, remarkable, considerable
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N2 い adjective adjective (generic)
- salty (taste), briny
popular search-only kanji form い adjective adjective (generic)
- simple, easy
popular search-only kanji form JLPT N5 い adjective adjective (generic) interjection
- bad, poor, undesirable
- poor (quality), inferior, insufficient
- evil, sinful
- ugly, not beautiful
- at fault, to blame, in the wrong
- bad (at doing something)
- unprofitable, unbeneficial
- sorry, (my) bad, unforgivable
popular usually written using kana alone い adjective adjective (generic) dated term
- no match for, cannot compete with, not in the same league as, powerless against
- cannot stand, cannot bear, cannot put up with, unbearable, intolerable
- unable to do, cannot do, impossible
popular い adjective adjective (generic)
- weak, feeble, delicate, frail, helpless
popular search-only kana form JLPT N3 い adjective adjective (generic)
- tough, hard, severe, demanding, harsh
- determined, strong-minded, forceful, formidable, fierce
- strong (e.g. sunlight, alcohol), severe, intense
- (too) tight, constricting, close
- extreme, unusually strong
popular い adjective adjective (generic)
- awkward, clumsy, stiff, crude, unrefined, constrained