JLPT N3 · い-adjective

可愛らしい (kawairashii)

可愛らしい (かわいらしい, kawairashii) is a Japanese い-adjective meaning “lovely; sweet”. It appears in JLPT N3 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading
かわいらしい
Romaji
kawairashii
Word class
い-adjective
Level
JLPT N3 (unofficial)

Meaning

  1. lovely; sweet; pretty; cute; adorable · い-adjective

Example sentences

兄は私にかわいらしい人形をくれました。
My brother gave me a cute doll.

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

Conjugation of 可愛らしい

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

FormJapaneseReading
Present可愛らしいかわいらしい kawairashii
Negative可愛らしくないかわいらしくない kawairashikunai
Past可愛らしかったかわいらしかった kawairashikatta
Negative past可愛らしくなかったかわいらしくなかった kawairashikunakatta
Te-form可愛らしくてかわいらしくて kawairashikute
Adverb (~ku)可愛らしくかわいらしく kawairashiku
Conditional (~ba)可愛らしければかわいらしければ kawairashikereba

Kanji in 可愛らしい

Related words

Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 可愛らしい.

Source: JMdict entry 1190740 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.