JLPT N3 · い-adjective

等しい (hitoshii)

等しい (ひとしい, hitoshii) is a Japanese い-adjective meaning “equal; identical”. It appears in JLPT N3 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading
ひとしい
Romaji
hitoshii
Word class
い-adjective
Level
JLPT N3 (unofficial)

Meaning

  1. equal; identical; the same · い-adjective
  2. no different (from); just like; equivalent · い-adjective

Example sentences

1ヤードは3フィートに等しい。
A yard is equal to three feet.
彼の依頼は命令に等しかった。
His request was equivalent to an order.

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

Conjugation of 等しい

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

FormJapaneseReading
Present等しいひとしい hitoshii
Negative等しくないひとしくない hitoshikunai
Past等しかったひとしかった hitoshikatta
Negative past等しくなかったひとしくなかった hitoshikunakatta
Te-form等しくてひとしくて hitoshikute
Adverb (~ku)等しくひとしく hitoshiku
Conditional (~ba)等しければひとしければ hitoshikereba

Kanji in 等しい

Related words

Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 等しい.

Source: JMdict entry 1449330 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.