I Love Kanjiみじめ (mijime)
みじめ is a Japanese な-adjective meaning “miserable; wretched”. It appears in JLPT N2 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.
- Reading
- みじめ
- Romaji
- mijime
- Word class
- な-adjective
- Level
- JLPT N2 (unofficial)
Meaning
- miserable; wretched; unhappy; sad; pitiable · な-adjective
Example sentences
Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.
Conjugation of みじめ
な-adjective. Plain and polite forms below; try any other word in the Japanese verb conjugator.
| Form | Japanese | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| Present (plain) | みじめだ | みじめだ mijimeda |
| Present (polite) | みじめです | みじめです mijimedesu |
| Negative | みじめじゃない | みじめじゃない mijimejanai |
| Past | みじめだった | みじめだった mijimedatta |
| Negative past | みじめじゃなかった | みじめじゃなかった mijimejanakatta |
| Te-form | みじめで | みじめで mijimede |
| Before a noun | みじめな | みじめな mijimena |
| Adverb (~ni) | みじめに | みじめに mijimeni |
Source: JMdict entry 1303280 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.