JLPT N5 · い-adjective

汚い (kitanai)

汚い (きたない, kitanai) is a Japanese い-adjective meaning “dirty; filthy”. It appears in JLPT N5 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading: きたない
Romaji: kitanai
Word class: い-adjective
Level: JLPT N5 (unofficial)

Meaning

dirty; filthy; foul; unclean · い-adjective
disordered; messy; untidy; poor (e.g. handwriting) · い-adjective
indecent (language, etc.); dirty; vulgar; coarse · い-adjective
dastardly; mean; base; underhanded · い-adjective
stingy; greedy · い-adjective

Example sentences

ジャックは私に汚いいたずらをした。

Jack played a dirty trick on me.

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

Conjugation of 汚い

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

Form	Japanese	Reading
Present	汚い	きたない kitanai
Negative	汚くない	きたなくない kitanakunai
Past	汚かった	きたなかった kitanakatta
Negative past	汚くなかった	きたなくなかった kitanakunakatta
Te-form	汚くて	きたなくて kitanakute
Adverb (~ku)	汚く	きたなく kitanaku
Conditional (~ba)	汚ければ	きたなければ kitanakereba

Kanji in 汚い

汚

dirty, pollute, disgraceオ・けが.す・けが.れる · 6 strokes

Related words

Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 汚い.

汚れるよごれるto get dirty汚染おせんpollution汚すよごすto pollute汚れよごれdirt

Source: JMdict entry 1178940 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.