I Love Kanjiユニーク (yuniiku)
ユニーク is a Japanese な-adjective meaning “unique; original”. It appears in JLPT N1 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.
- Reading
- ユニーク
- Romaji
- yuniiku
- Word class
- な-adjective
- Level
- JLPT N1 (unofficial)
Meaning
- unique; original; individual; unusual · な-adjective
Example sentences
会社にパンタロンとアロハシャツを着てくる彼は、かなりユニークな存在だ。
He's a pretty unique guy, wearing bell bottoms and Hawaiian shirts to the office.
Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.
Conjugation of ユニーク
な-adjective. Plain and polite forms below; try any other word in the Japanese verb conjugator.
| Form | Japanese | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| Present (plain) | ユニークだ | ユニークだ yuniikuda |
| Present (polite) | ユニークです | ユニークです yuniikudesu |
| Negative | ユニークじゃない | ユニークじゃない yuniikujanai |
| Past | ユニークだった | ユニークだった yuniikudatta |
| Negative past | ユニークじゃなかった | ユニークじゃなかった yuniikujanakatta |
| Te-form | ユニークで | ユニークで yuniikude |
| Before a noun | ユニークな | ユニークな yuniikuna |
| Adverb (~ni) | ユニークに | ユニークに yuniikuni |
Source: JMdict entry 1137120 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.