JLPT N3 · な-adjective

新鮮 (shinsen)

新鮮 (しんせん, shinsen) is a Japanese な-adjective meaning “fresh”. It appears in JLPT N3 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading
しんせん
Romaji
shinsen
Word class
な-adjective
Level
JLPT N3 (unofficial)

Meaning

  1. fresh · な-adjective

Example sentences

どうやって新鮮な魚をえらぶのですか。
How can I pick out fresh fish?

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

Conjugation of 新鮮

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

FormJapaneseReading
Present (plain)新鮮だしんせんだ shinsenda
Present (polite)新鮮ですしんせんです shinsendesu
Negative新鮮じゃないしんせんじゃない shinsenjanai
Past新鮮だったしんせんだった shinsendatta
Negative past新鮮じゃなかったしんせんじゃなかった shinsenjanakatta
Te-form新鮮でしんせんで shinsende
Before a noun新鮮なしんせんな shinsenna
Adverb (~ni)新鮮にしんせんに shinsenni

Kanji in 新鮮

Related words

Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 新鮮.

Source: JMdict entry 1362100 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.