JLPT N5 · い-adjective

寒い (samui)

寒い (さむい, samui) is a Japanese い-adjective meaning “cold (e.g. weather)”. It appears in JLPT N5 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading: さむい
Romaji: samui
Word class: い-adjective
Level: JLPT N5 (unofficial)

Meaning

cold (e.g. weather) · い-adjective
uninteresting (esp. joke); lame; dull; weak; corny · い-adjective

Example sentences

寒いからコートを着るべきだ。

It's cold so you should wear a coat.

Tatoeba #184049

この寒さにはもう耐えられない。

I can no longer stand the cold.

Tatoeba #222586

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

Conjugation of 寒い

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

Form	Japanese	Reading
Present	寒い	さむい samui
Negative	寒くない	さむくない samukunai
Past	寒かった	さむかった samukatta
Negative past	寒くなかった	さむくなかった samukunakatta
Te-form	寒くて	さむくて samukute
Adverb (~ku)	寒く	さむく samuku
Conditional (~ba)	寒ければ	さむければ samukereba

Kanji in 寒い

寒

coldカン・さむ.い · 12 strokes

Related words

Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 寒い.

寒帯かんたいfrigid zone寒気さむけchill

Source: JMdict entry 1210360 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.