JLPT N3 · な-adjective

大 (dai)

大 (だい, dai) is a Japanese な-adjective meaning “large; big”. It appears in JLPT N3 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading: だい
Romaji: dai
Word class: な-adjective
Level: JLPT N3 (unofficial)

Meaning

large; big; great; huge; vast · prefix, な-adjective, noun
great; prominent; eminent; distinguished · prefix
-sized; as big as; the size of · suffix
university · suffix noun · abbreviation
large (e.g. serving size); large option · noun

Example sentences

この決定はあなたの提案に負うところ大であった。

Your suggestion weighed heavily in this decision.

Tatoeba #222177

嵐は作物に大損害を与えた。

The storm did great harm to the crop.

瞬くうちにテニスボール大の団子が消え去った。

In the blink of an eye, the tennis-ball-sized dumpling had disappeared.

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

Conjugation of 大

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

Form	Japanese	Reading
Present (plain)	大だ	だいだ daida
Present (polite)	大です	だいです daidesu
Negative	大じゃない	だいじゃない daijanai
Past	大だった	だいだった daidatta
Negative past	大じゃなかった	だいじゃなかった daijanakatta
Te-form	大で	だいで daide
Before a noun	大な	だいな daina
Adverb (~ni)	大に	だいに daini

Kanji in 大

large, bigダイ・タイ・おお-・おお.きい · 3 strokes

Related words

Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 大.

大勢おおぜいcrowd of people大人おとなadult大学だいがくuniversity大切たいせつimportant大変たいへんvery大きいおおきいbig大きなおおきなbig大使館たいしかんembassy大丈夫だいじょうぶsafe大好きだいすきliking very much大抵たいていmostly大事だいじimportant大体だいたいgenerally大分だいぶconsiderably

Source: JMdict entry 2082450 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.