JLPT N4 · な-adjective

大事 (daiji)

大事 (だいじ, daiji) is a Japanese な-adjective meaning “important; serious”. It appears in JLPT N4 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading: だいじ
Romaji: daiji
Word class: な-adjective
Level: JLPT N4 (unofficial)

Meaning

important; serious; crucial · な-adjective
valuable; precious · な-adjective
serious matter; major incident; matter of grave concern; crisis · noun
great undertaking; great enterprise; great thing · noun
safe; OK · な-adjective · Tochigi dialect

Example sentences

あなたの親切な言葉は大事に心に刻みつけておきます。

I'll treasure your kind words.

Tatoeba #233161

彼は私たちにとって大事な人だ。

He is precious to us.

Tatoeba #106339

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

Conjugation of 大事

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

Form	Japanese	Reading
Present (plain)	大事だ	だいじだ daijida
Present (polite)	大事です	だいじです daijidesu
Negative	大事じゃない	だいじじゃない daijijanai
Past	大事だった	だいじだった daijidatta
Negative past	大事じゃなかった	だいじじゃなかった daijijanakatta
Te-form	大事で	だいじで daijide
Before a noun	大事な	だいじな daijina
Adverb (~ni)	大事に	だいじに daijini

Kanji in 大事

大

large, bigダイ・タイ・おお-・おお.きい · 3 strokes

事

matter, thing, factジ・ズ・こと・つか.う · 8 strokes

Related words

Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 大事.

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大体だいたいgenerally大分だいぶconsiderably大学生だいがくせいuniversity student

Source: JMdict entry 1413940 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.