JLPT N3 · な-adjective

重大 (juudai)

重大 (じゅうだい, juudai) is a Japanese な-adjective meaning “serious; important”. It appears in JLPT N3 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading
じゅうだい
Romaji
juudai
Word class
な-adjective
Level
JLPT N3 (unofficial)

Meaning

  1. serious; important; significant; grave; weighty · な-adjective, noun

Example sentences

彼は重大な発見をした。
He made an important discovery.

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

Conjugation of 重大

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

FormJapaneseReading
Present (plain)重大だじゅうだいだ juudaida
Present (polite)重大ですじゅうだいです juudaidesu
Negative重大じゃないじゅうだいじゃない juudaijanai
Past重大だったじゅうだいだった juudaidatta
Negative past重大じゃなかったじゅうだいじゃなかった juudaijanakatta
Te-form重大でじゅうだいで juudaide
Before a noun重大なじゅうだいな juudaina
Adverb (~ni)重大にじゅうだいに juudaini

Kanji in 重大

Related words

Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 重大.

Source: JMdict entry 1336500 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.