I Love Kanji気軽 (kigaru)
気軽 (きがる, kigaru) is a Japanese な-adjective meaning “carefree; buoyant”. It appears in JLPT N1 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.
- Reading
- きがる
- Romaji
- kigaru
- Word class
- な-adjective
- Level
- JLPT N1 (unofficial)
Meaning
- carefree; buoyant; lighthearted; sprightly · な-adjective
- ease · noun
Example sentences
私たちの惑星は飛ぶ鳥の気軽さで宇宙を動いている。
Our planet moves in space with the lightness of a bird in flight.
Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.
Conjugation of 気軽
な-adjective. Plain and polite forms below; try any other word in the Japanese verb conjugator.
| Form | Japanese | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| Present (plain) | 気軽だ | きがるだ kigaruda |
| Present (polite) | 気軽です | きがるです kigarudesu |
| Negative | 気軽じゃない | きがるじゃない kigarujanai |
| Past | 気軽だった | きがるだった kigarudatta |
| Negative past | 気軽じゃなかった | きがるじゃなかった kigarujanakatta |
| Te-form | 気軽で | きがるで kigarude |
| Before a noun | 気軽な | きがるな kigaruna |
| Adverb (~ni) | 気軽に | きがるに kigaruni |
Kanji in 気軽
Related words
Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 気軽.
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Source: JMdict entry 1222110 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.