JLPT N4 · な-adjective

必要 (hitsuyou)

必要 (ひつよう, hitsuyou) is a Japanese な-adjective meaning “necessary; needed”. It appears in JLPT N4 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading
ひつよう
Romaji
hitsuyou
Word class
な-adjective
Level
JLPT N4 (unofficial)

Meaning

  1. necessary; needed; essential; indispensable · な-adjective · 必用 can imply has to be used rather than is just needed
  2. necessity; need; requirement · noun

Example sentences

私達が生きていくためには衣食住が必要です。
We need food, clothes and a home in order to live.
歯医者に行く必要はないですよ。
You don't need to go to the dentist's.

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

Conjugation of 必要

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

FormJapaneseReading
Present (plain)必要だひつようだ hitsuyouda
Present (polite)必要ですひつようです hitsuyoudesu
Negative必要じゃないひつようじゃない hitsuyoujanai
Past必要だったひつようだった hitsuyoudatta
Negative past必要じゃなかったひつようじゃなかった hitsuyoujanakatta
Te-form必要でひつようで hitsuyoude
Before a noun必要なひつような hitsuyouna
Adverb (~ni)必要にひつように hitsuyouni

Kanji in 必要

Related words

Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 必要.

Source: JMdict entry 1487660 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.