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List of い-Adjectives Part 1
Submitted by Oni on Sun, 08/24/2008 - 06:45
A list of common beginner level -i adjective vocabulary words grouped by the categories: Temperatures, Amounts, Sizes, and others with examples and mouseover readings.
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
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
小さい small
長い long
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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