I Love Kanji短い (mijikai)
短い (みじかい, mijikai) is a Japanese い-adjective meaning “short”. It appears in JLPT N5 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.
- Reading
- みじかい
- Romaji
- mijikai
- Word class
- い-adjective
- Level
- JLPT N5 (unofficial)
Meaning
- short · い-adjective
- brief · い-adjective
Example sentences
Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.
Conjugation of 短い
い-adjective. Plain and polite forms below; try any other word in the Japanese verb conjugator.
| Form | Japanese | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| Present | 短い | みじかい mijikai |
| Negative | 短くない | みじかくない mijikakunai |
| Past | 短かった | みじかかった mijikakatta |
| Negative past | 短くなかった | みじかくなかった mijikakunakatta |
| Te-form | 短くて | みじかくて mijikakute |
| Adverb (~ku) | 短く | みじかく mijikaku |
| Conditional (~ba) | 短ければ | みじかければ mijikakereba |
Kanji in 短い
Related words
Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 短い.
短期たんきshort-term短所たんしょdefect短編たんぺんshort story長短ちょうたん(relative) length短たんfault短歌たんかtanka短気たんきshort temper短縮たんしゅくshortening短大たんだいjunior college短波たんぱshort wave
Source: JMdict entry 1418620 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.