I Love Kanjiぞんざい (zonzai)
ぞんざい is a Japanese な-adjective meaning “rough; careless”. It appears in JLPT N1 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.
- Reading
- ぞんざい
- Romaji
- zonzai
- Word class
- な-adjective
- Level
- JLPT N1 (unofficial)
Meaning
- rough; careless; slovenly; slipshod; rude · な-adjective
Example sentences
Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.
Conjugation of ぞんざい
な-adjective. Plain and polite forms below; try any other word in the Japanese verb conjugator.
| Form | Japanese | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| Present (plain) | ぞんざいだ | ぞんざいだ zonzaida |
| Present (polite) | ぞんざいです | ぞんざいです zonzaidesu |
| Negative | ぞんざいじゃない | ぞんざいじゃない zonzaijanai |
| Past | ぞんざいだった | ぞんざいだった zonzaidatta |
| Negative past | ぞんざいじゃなかった | ぞんざいじゃなかった zonzaijanakatta |
| Te-form | ぞんざいで | ぞんざいで zonzaide |
| Before a noun | ぞんざいな | ぞんざいな zonzaina |
| Adverb (~ni) | ぞんざいに | ぞんざいに zonzaini |
Source: JMdict entry 1007170 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.