I Love Kanjiぴたり (pitari)
ぴたり is a Japanese な-adjective meaning “tightly; closely”. It appears in JLPT N2 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.
- Reading
- ぴたり
- Romaji
- pitari
- Word class
- Noun + する (suru verb)
- Level
- JLPT N2 (unofficial)
Meaning
- tightly; closely · adverb, adverb (taking と), suru verb · onomatopoeia / mimetic · ぴったし is colloquial
- exactly; precisely · adverb, adverb (taking と), suru verb · onomatopoeia / mimetic
- suddenly (stopping) · adverb, adverb (taking と), suru verb · onomatopoeia / mimetic
- perfectly (suited); ideally · adverb, adverb (taking と), suru verb, な-adjective · onomatopoeia / mimetic
Example sentences
Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.
Conjugation of ぴたり
Noun + する (suru verb). Plain and polite forms below; try any other word in the Japanese verb conjugator.
| Form | Japanese | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| Dictionary | ぴたりする | ぴたりする pitarisuru |
| Polite (~masu) | ぴたりします | ぴたりします pitarishimasu |
| Negative | ぴたりしない | ぴたりしない pitarishinai |
| Polite negative | ぴたりしません | ぴたりしません pitarishimasen |
| Past | ぴたりした | ぴたりした pitarishita |
| Polite past | ぴたりしました | ぴたりしました pitarishimashita |
| Negative past | ぴたりしなかった | ぴたりしなかった pitarishinakatta |
| Te-form | ぴたりして | ぴたりして pitarishite |
| Potential | ぴたりできる | ぴたりできる pitaridekiru |
| Passive | ぴたりされる | ぴたりされる pitarisareru |
| Causative | ぴたりさせる | ぴたりさせる pitarisaseru |
| Volitional | ぴたりしよう | ぴたりしよう pitarishiyou |
| Imperative | ぴたりしろ | ぴたりしろ pitarishiro |
| Conditional (~ba) | ぴたりすれば | ぴたりすれば pitarisureba |
Source: JMdict entry 1010900 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.