JLPT N4 · い-adjective

美しい (utsukushii)

美しい (うつくしい, utsukushii) is a Japanese い-adjective meaning “beautiful; pretty”. It appears in JLPT N4 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading
うつくしい
Romaji
utsukushii
Word class
い-adjective
Level
JLPT N4 (unofficial)

Meaning

  1. beautiful; pretty; lovely; sweet; pure (heart, friendship, etc.) · い-adjective

Example sentences

あなたは美しい蝶々です。
You are a beautiful butterfly.

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

Conjugation of 美しい

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

FormJapaneseReading
Present美しいうつくしい utsukushii
Negative美しくないうつくしくない utsukushikunai
Past美しかったうつくしかった utsukushikatta
Negative past美しくなかったうつくしくなかった utsukushikunakatta
Te-form美しくてうつくしくて utsukushikute
Adverb (~ku)美しくうつくしく utsukushiku
Conditional (~ba)美しければうつくしければ utsukushikereba

Kanji in 美しい

Related words

Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 美しい.

Source: JMdict entry 1486360 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.