JLPT N4 · い-adjective

悲しい (kanashii)

悲しい (かなしい, kanashii) is a Japanese い-adjective meaning “sad; miserable”. It appears in JLPT N4 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading
かなしい
Romaji
kanashii
Word class
い-adjective
Level
JLPT N4 (unofficial)

Meaning

  1. sad; miserable; unhappy; sorrowful · い-adjective · of a person
  2. sad; lamentable; deplorable; grievous · い-adjective · of a thing, incident, etc.

Example sentences

そんな悲しい目で見ないで。
Don't give me such a sad look.

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

Conjugation of 悲しい

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

FormJapaneseReading
Present悲しいかなしい kanashii
Negative悲しくないかなしくない kanashikunai
Past悲しかったかなしかった kanashikatta
Negative past悲しくなかったかなしくなかった kanashikunakatta
Te-form悲しくてかなしくて kanashikute
Adverb (~ku)悲しくかなしく kanashiku
Conditional (~ba)悲しければかなしければ kanashikereba

Kanji in 悲しい

Related words

Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 悲しい.

Source: JMdict entry 1483190 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.