I Love Kanjiいかが (ikaga)
いかが is a Japanese な-adjective meaning “how; in what way”. It is usually written in kana. It appears in JLPT N5 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.
- Reading
- いかが
- Romaji
- ikaga
- Word class
- な-adjective
- Level
- JLPT N5 (unofficial)
Meaning
- how; in what way; how about · adverb · usually written in kana
- questionable · な-adjective · usually written in kana
Example sentences
Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.
Conjugation of いかが
な-adjective. Plain and polite forms below; try any other word in the Japanese verb conjugator.
| Form | Japanese | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| Present (plain) | いかがだ | いかがだ ikagada |
| Present (polite) | いかがです | いかがです ikagadesu |
| Negative | いかがじゃない | いかがじゃない ikagajanai |
| Past | いかがだった | いかがだった ikagadatta |
| Negative past | いかがじゃなかった | いかがじゃなかった ikagajanakatta |
| Te-form | いかがで | いかがで ikagade |
| Before a noun | いかがな | いかがな ikagana |
| Adverb (~ni) | いかがに | いかがに ikagani |
Source: JMdict entry 2845606 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.