JLPT N3 · な-adjective

莫大 (bakudai)

莫大 (ばくだい, bakudai) is a Japanese な-adjective meaning “vast; huge”. It appears in JLPT N3 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading
ばくだい
Romaji
bakudai
Word class
な-adjective
Level
JLPT N3 (unofficial)

Meaning

  1. vast; huge; immense; enormous; colossal · な-adjective
  2. malva nut (Scaphium affine) · noun

Example sentences

ジョンは莫大な財産を相続した。
John inherited a large fortune.

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

Conjugation of 莫大

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

FormJapaneseReading
Present (plain)莫大だばくだいだ bakudaida
Present (polite)莫大ですばくだいです bakudaidesu
Negative莫大じゃないばくだいじゃない bakudaijanai
Past莫大だったばくだいだった bakudaidatta
Negative past莫大じゃなかったばくだいじゃなかった bakudaijanakatta
Te-form莫大でばくだいで bakudaide
Before a noun莫大なばくだいな bakudaina
Adverb (~ni)莫大にばくだいに bakudaini

Kanji in 莫大

Related words

Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 莫大.

Source: JMdict entry 1476060 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.