JLPT N5 · い-adjective

危ない (abunai)

危ない (あぶない, abunai) is a Japanese い-adjective meaning “dangerous; risky”. It appears in JLPT N5 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading: あぶない
Romaji: abunai
Word class: い-adjective
Level: JLPT N5 (unofficial)

Meaning

dangerous; risky; hazardous; perilous; precarious · い-adjective
in danger; in jeopardy; critical; grave; at risk · い-adjective
uncertain; unreliable; insecure; unsteady; doubtful · い-adjective
close (call); narrow (escape) · い-adjective
sketchy; shady; dodgy · い-adjective · colloquial · often as アブない

Example sentences

火は非常に危ない。

Fire is very dangerous.

Tatoeba #186727

こんな夜更けに女の子の一人歩きは危ない。

It is not safe for a girl to go out by herself so late at night.

Tatoeba #217308

彼の命が危ない。

His life is in danger.

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

Conjugation of 危ない

い-adjective. Plain and polite forms below; try any other word in the Japanese verb conjugator.

Form	Japanese	Reading
Present	危ない	あぶない abunai
Negative	危なくない	あぶなくない abunakunai
Past	危なかった	あぶなかった abunakatta
Negative past	危なくなかった	あぶなくなかった abunakunakatta
Te-form	危なくて	あぶなくて abunakute
Adverb (~ku)	危なく	あぶなく abunaku
Conditional (~ba)	危なければ	あぶなければ abunakereba

Kanji in 危ない

危

dangerous, fear, uneasyキ・あぶ.ない・あや.うい · 6 strokes

Related words

Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 危ない.

危険きけんdanger危ういあやういdangerous危害きがいinjury危機ききcrisis危ぶむあやぶむto fear

Source: JMdict entry 1218380 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.