I Love Kanjiでかい (dekai)
でかい is a Japanese い-adjective meaning “huge; big”. It appears in JLPT N1 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.
- Reading
- でかい
- Romaji
- dekai
- Word class
- い-adjective
- Level
- JLPT N1 (unofficial)
Meaning
- huge; big; enormous · い-adjective · colloquial
Example sentences
こんなデカイのがチャリの荷台に乗るわけないだろ。
There's no way one that big is going to go on a bike's luggage rest.
Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.
Conjugation of でかい
い-adjective. Plain and polite forms below; try any other word in the Japanese verb conjugator.
| Form | Japanese | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| Present | でかい | でかい dekai |
| Negative | でかくない | でかくない dekakunai |
| Past | でかかった | でかかった dekakatta |
| Negative past | でかくなかった | でかくなかった dekakunakatta |
| Te-form | でかくて | でかくて dekakute |
| Adverb (~ku) | でかく | でかく dekaku |
| Conditional (~ba) | でかければ | でかければ dekakereba |
Source: JMdict entry 1008370 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.