JLPT N2 · い-adjective

塩辛い (shiokarai)

塩辛い (しおからい, shiokarai) is a Japanese い-adjective meaning “salty (taste); briny”. It appears in JLPT N2 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading
しおからい
Romaji
shiokarai
Word class
い-adjective
Level
JLPT N2 (unofficial)

Meaning

  1. salty (taste); briny · い-adjective

Example sentences

このカツオの塩辛は塩辛すぎる。
These salted bonito guts are too salty for me.

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

Conjugation of 塩辛い

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

FormJapaneseReading
Present塩辛いしおからい shiokarai
Negative塩辛くないしおからくない shiokarakunai
Past塩辛かったしおからかった shiokarakatta
Negative past塩辛くなかったしおからくなかった shiokarakunakatta
Te-form塩辛くてしおからくて shiokarakute
Adverb (~ku)塩辛くしおからく shiokaraku
Conditional (~ba)塩辛ければしおからければ shiokarakereba

Kanji in 塩辛い

Related words

Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 塩辛い.

塩しおsalt食塩しょくえんtable salt塩辛しおからshiokara辛いからいspicy辛いつらいpainful辛いづらいdifficult to ... (physically or emotionally)辛抱しんぼうpatience香辛料こうしんりょうspice

Source: JMdict entry 1609860 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.