JLPT N3 · な-adjective

新た (arata)

新た (あらた, arata) is a Japanese な-adjective meaning “new; fresh”. It appears in JLPT N3 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading
あらた
Romaji
arata
Word class
な-adjective
Level
JLPT N3 (unofficial)

Meaning

  1. new; fresh; novel · な-adjective

Example sentences

彼女は記憶を新たにするためにその写真を見た。
She looked at the picture to refresh her memory.

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

Conjugation of 新た

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

FormJapaneseReading
Present (plain)新ただあらただ aratada
Present (polite)新たですあらたです aratadesu
Negative新たじゃないあらたじゃない aratajanai
Past新ただったあらただった aratadatta
Negative past新たじゃなかったあらたじゃなかった aratajanakatta
Te-form新たであらたで aratade
Before a noun新たなあらたな aratana
Adverb (~ni)新たにあらたに aratani

Kanji in 新た

Related words

Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 新た.

Source: JMdict entry 1361510 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.