JLPT N2 · な-adjective

乱暴 (ranbou)

乱暴 (らんぼう, ranbou) is a Japanese な-adjective meaning “violence; assault”. It appears in JLPT N2 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading
らんぼう
Romaji
ranbou
Word class
Noun + する (suru verb)
Level
JLPT N2 (unofficial)

Meaning

  1. violence; assault; rowdiness; wildness; running riot · noun, な-adjective, suru verb, intransitive
  2. rough (handling, language, etc.); reckless; careless; coarse; rude · な-adjective, noun
  3. rape; sexual assault · noun, suru verb, intransitive

Example sentences

弟の乱暴はこのごろ目に余る。
My brother has been much too rowdy lately.
道具を乱暴に扱うな。
Don't handle the tools roughly.

Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.

Conjugation of 乱暴

Noun + する (suru verb). Plain and polite forms below; try any other word in the Japanese verb conjugator.

FormJapaneseReading
Dictionary乱暴するらんぼうする ranbousuru
Polite (~masu)乱暴しますらんぼうします ranboushimasu
Negative乱暴しないらんぼうしない ranboushinai
Polite negative乱暴しませんらんぼうしません ranboushimasen
Past乱暴したらんぼうした ranboushita
Polite past乱暴しましたらんぼうしました ranboushimashita
Negative past乱暴しなかったらんぼうしなかった ranboushinakatta
Te-form乱暴してらんぼうして ranboushite
Potential乱暴できるらんぼうできる ranboudekiru
Passive乱暴されるらんぼうされる ranbousareru
Causative乱暴させるらんぼうさせる ranbousaseru
Volitional乱暴しようらんぼうしよう ranboushiyou
Imperative乱暴しろらんぼうしろ ranboushiro
Conditional (~ba)乱暴すればらんぼうすれば ranbousureba

Kanji in 乱暴

Related words

Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 乱暴.

Source: JMdict entry 1549100 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.