JLPT N2 · い-adjective

そそっかしい (sosokkashii)

そそっかしい is a Japanese い-adjective meaning “careless; thoughtless”. It appears in JLPT N2 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading: そそっかしい
Romaji: sosokkashii
Word class: い-adjective
Level: JLPT N2 (unofficial)

Meaning

careless; thoughtless; hasty; rash · い-adjective

Example sentences

バスに傘を忘れるとは彼女はそそっかしい。

It was careless of her to leave her umbrella in the bus.

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Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.

Conjugation of そそっかしい

い-adjective. Plain and polite forms below; try any other word in the Japanese verb conjugator.

Form	Japanese	Reading
Present	そそっかしい	そそっかしい sosokkashii
Negative	そそっかしくない	そそっかしくない sosokkashikunai
Past	そそっかしかった	そそっかしかった sosokkashikatta
Negative past	そそっかしくなかった	そそっかしくなかった sosokkashikunakatta
Te-form	そそっかしくて	そそっかしくて sosokkashikute
Adverb (~ku)	そそっかしく	そそっかしく sosokkashiku
Conditional (~ba)	そそっかしければ	そそっかしければ sosokkashikereba

Source: JMdict entry 1006740 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.