JLPT N4 · い-adjective

寂しい (sabishii)

寂しい (さびしい, sabishii) is a Japanese い-adjective meaning “lonely (e.g. person, feeling); lonesome”. It appears in JLPT N4 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading: さびしい
Romaji: sabishii
Word class: い-adjective
Level: JLPT N4 (unofficial)

Meaning

lonely (e.g. person, feeling); lonesome; forlorn · い-adjective
desolate; deserted; lonely (e.g. place); isolated; solitary · い-adjective
sad · い-adjective
lacking; wanting; insufficient · い-adjective

Example sentences

一人で生活するのは寂しい。

It is lonely to live alone.

Tatoeba #190488

それで、彼女はとてもさびしく思っています。

And she misses them very much.

Tatoeba #205781

会えなくて淋しい。

I miss you.

Tatoeba #4735

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

Conjugation of 寂しい

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

Form	Japanese	Reading
Present	寂しい	さびしい sabishii
Negative	寂しくない	さびしくない sabishikunai
Past	寂しかった	さびしかった sabishikatta
Negative past	寂しくなかった	さびしくなかった sabishikunakatta
Te-form	寂しくて	さびしくて sabishikute
Adverb (~ku)	寂しく	さびしく sabishiku
Conditional (~ba)	寂しければ	さびしければ sabishikereba

Kanji in 寂しい

寂

loneliness, quietly, mellowジャク・セキ・さび・さび.しい · 11 strokes

Source: JMdict entry 1579720 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.