I Love Kanji素朴 (soboku)
素朴 (そぼく, soboku) is a Japanese な-adjective meaning “simple; artless”. It appears in JLPT N1 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.
- Reading
- そぼく
- Romaji
- soboku
- Word class
- な-adjective
- Level
- JLPT N1 (unofficial)
Meaning
- simple; artless; naive; unsophisticated · な-adjective, noun
Example sentences
素朴な疑問なんだけど、・・・トラとライオンはどっちが強いの？
This may be a silly question, but which is stronger - a tiger or a lion?
Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.
Conjugation of 素朴
な-adjective. Plain and polite forms below; try any other word in the Japanese verb conjugator.
| Form | Japanese | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| Present (plain) | 素朴だ | そぼくだ sobokuda |
| Present (polite) | 素朴です | そぼくです sobokudesu |
| Negative | 素朴じゃない | そぼくじゃない sobokujanai |
| Past | 素朴だった | そぼくだった sobokudatta |
| Negative past | 素朴じゃなかった | そぼくじゃなかった sobokujanakatta |
| Te-form | 素朴で | そぼくで sobokude |
| Before a noun | 素朴な | そぼくな sobokuna |
| Adverb (~ni) | 素朴に | そぼくに sobokuni |
Kanji in 素朴
Related words
Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 素朴.
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Source: JMdict entry 1397390 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.