List: adjective (keiyoushi)
Adjectives finishing in い before they modify a noun.
popular colloquial い adjective adjective (generic) slang
- dangerous, risky
- awful, terrible, crap
- terrific, amazing, cool
- crazy, insane, not normal, unhinged, extreme
popular expression い adjective adjective (generic)
- very likely, very probable
popular JLPT N1 い adjective adjective (generic)
- empty, void, vacant
- vain, fruitless, futile, ineffective
- lifeless
popular usually written using kana alone い adjective adjective (generic)
- unpleasant, disagreeable, nasty
- lewd, lascivious, obscene, filthy, dirty
popular search-only kanji form い adjective adjective (generic)
- there's no (other) way
- cannot be helped, unavoidable, inevitable, (there's) nothing one can do, having no choice
- it's no use (doing), pointless, useless, no good, insufficient, not enough
- hopeless (person), annoying, troublesome, awful
- cannot stand it, unbearable, cannot help (doing, feeling), dying (to do)
popular rarely used kanji form JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone い adjective adjective (generic)
- skillful, skilful, skilled, good, expert, clever (expression, trick, etc.), apt, appropriate
- delicious, tasty, good, nice
- good (deal, idea, etc.), profitable, promising, lucky, fortunate, successful, satisfactory, splendid
popular usually written using kana alone expression い adjective adjective (generic)
- endless, boundless, innumerable
- endless, never-ending, going on forever
popular い adjective adjective (generic)
- grown-up (manner, etc.), mature, adult
popular JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone い adjective adjective (generic)
- bothersome, tiresome, bother to do
popular usually written using kana alone い adjective adjective (generic)
- hard to understand, incomprehensible, unintelligible