I Love Kanjiいい加減 (iikagen)
いい加減 (いいかげん, iikagen) is a Japanese な-adjective meaning “irresponsible; perfunctory”. It appears in JLPT N1 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.
- Reading
- いいかげん
- Romaji
- iikagen
- Word class
- な-adjective
- Level
- JLPT N1 (unofficial)
Meaning
- irresponsible; perfunctory; careless · な-adjective
- lukewarm; half-baked; halfhearted; vague · な-adjective
- (already) enough · な-adjective, adverb · used to express one's wish for something to end
- considerably; quite; rather; pretty · adverb
Example sentences
Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.
Conjugation of いい加減
な-adjective. Plain and polite forms below; try any other word in the Japanese verb conjugator.
| Form | Japanese | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| Present (plain) | いい加減だ | いいかげんだ iikagenda |
| Present (polite) | いい加減です | いいかげんです iikagendesu |
| Negative | いい加減じゃない | いいかげんじゃない iikagenjanai |
| Past | いい加減だった | いいかげんだった iikagendatta |
| Negative past | いい加減じゃなかった | いいかげんじゃなかった iikagenjanakatta |
| Te-form | いい加減で | いいかげんで iikagende |
| Before a noun | いい加減な | いいかげんな iikagenna |
| Adverb (~ni) | いい加減に | いいかげんに iikagenni |
Kanji in いい加減
Related words
Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with いい加減.
参加さんかparticipation加減かげんdegree加味かみseasoning増加ぞうかincrease加えるくわえるto add加わるくわわるto be added to加速かそくacceleration加熱かねつheating追加ついかaddition加速度かそくどacceleration加工かこうmanufacturing加入かにゅうjoining (a club, organization, etc.)付け加えるつけくわえるto add (one thing to another)減少げんしょうdecrease
Source: JMdict entry 1277440 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.