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List of い-Adjectives Part 1
Submitted by clay on Sun, 07/22/2007 - 9:20pm.
I've tried to break these up into smaller related categories for ease. -Oni
Temperature
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熱い hot (thing)
暑い hot (weather)
冷たい cold (to the touch)
寒い cold (weather)
温かい warm
涼しい cool
温い lukewarm, not hot enough
Amount/Cost
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多い many, numerous, much
少ない few, little, limited, scarce (see 少)
高い expensive, tall (see 高)
安い cheap
Size/Area
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遠い far, distant
近い close, near
広い wide, broad, spacious
狭い narrow, small, restricted, cramped
太い thick, broad
大きい big (see 大)
小さい small (see 小)
長い long (see 長)
短い short
低い short, low
細い thin, fine, slender, narrow
Other
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*良い good
悪い bad
忙しい busy
嬉しい happy
悲しい sad
眠い sleepy
Examples
今日の天気は暑いです。 Today's weather is hot.
日本語は難しいです。 Japanese is hard.
僕は眠いです。 I am sleepy.
* - 良い actually has another reading, よい, which is used if 良い is conjugated.
例えば：良い = いい, 良かった = よかった
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Please thank Daisuke for submitting this list originally. I hope to expand on his good work. -Oni
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I thought hard was
I thought hard was muzukashii... it says mizukashii when i put my cursor over it. :/
Fixed! Thanks!
Fixed! Thanks!
nemui
Great list,
I was under the impression that "nemui" was more accurately translated as "sleepy", as against "tsukareta", which would be "tired (physically)"?
M.
That is correct.
That is correct.
Even still, people say I'm tired when they say they're sleepy, although its technically not the same.
It should be changed to "sleepy" for clarification.
I'm one of those bad people
I'm one of those bad people that use 'tired' as 'sleepy' ^_^;