JLPT N3 · な-adjective

偉大 (idai)

偉大 (いだい, idai) is a Japanese な-adjective meaning “great; grand”. It appears in JLPT N3 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading
いだい
Romaji
idai
Word class
な-adjective
Level
JLPT N3 (unofficial)

Meaning

  1. great; grand; magnificent; outstanding; mighty · な-adjective

Example sentences

リンカーンは偉大な政治家であった。
Lincoln was a great statesman.

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

Conjugation of 偉大

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

FormJapaneseReading
Present (plain)偉大だいだいだ idaida
Present (polite)偉大ですいだいです idaidesu
Negative偉大じゃないいだいじゃない idaijanai
Past偉大だったいだいだった idaidatta
Negative past偉大じゃなかったいだいじゃなかった idaijanakatta
Te-form偉大でいだいで idaide
Before a noun偉大ないだいな idaina
Adverb (~ni)偉大にいだいに idaini

Kanji in 偉大

Related words

Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 偉大.

Source: JMdict entry 1155920 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.