JLPT N5 · い-adjective

暗い (kurai)

暗い (くらい, kurai) is a Japanese い-adjective meaning “dark; gloomy”. It appears in JLPT N5 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading: くらい
Romaji: kurai
Word class: い-adjective
Level: JLPT N5 (unofficial)

Meaning

dark; gloomy; murky · い-adjective
depressed; dispirited; down in the dumps; dark (mood) · い-adjective
dark (in colour); dull · い-adjective
ill-boding; dark (e.g. past); suspicious · い-adjective
unlikely (to succeed); hopeless; unpromising · い-adjective

Example sentences

あたりがもう暗くなっていることに気がついた。

I observed that it had already got dark.

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

Conjugation of 暗い

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

Form	Japanese	Reading
Present	暗い	くらい kurai
Negative	暗くない	くらくない kurakunai
Past	暗かった	くらかった kurakatta
Negative past	暗くなかった	くらくなかった kurakunakatta
Te-form	暗くて	くらくて kurakute
Adverb (~ku)	暗く	くらく kuraku
Conditional (~ba)	暗ければ	くらければ kurakereba

Kanji in 暗い

暗

darkness, disappear, shadeアン・くら.い・くら.む · 13 strokes

Related words

Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 暗い.

暗記あんきmemorization薄暗いうすぐらいdim真っ暗まっくらpitch-dark暗殺あんさつassassination暗示あんじhint暗算あんざんmental arithmetic

Source: JMdict entry 1154330 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.