JLPT N3 · な-adjective

巨大 (kyodai)

巨大 (きょだい, kyodai) is a Japanese な-adjective meaning “huge; gigantic”. It appears in JLPT N3 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading
きょだい
Romaji
kyodai
Word class
な-adjective
Level
JLPT N3 (unofficial)

Meaning

  1. huge; gigantic; enormous · な-adjective, noun

Example sentences

巨大なタンカーがついに今し方出港した。
The huge tanker has just left the dock.

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

Conjugation of 巨大

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

FormJapaneseReading
Present (plain)巨大だきょだいだ kyodaida
Present (polite)巨大ですきょだいです kyodaidesu
Negative巨大じゃないきょだいじゃない kyodaijanai
Past巨大だったきょだいだった kyodaidatta
Negative past巨大じゃなかったきょだいじゃなかった kyodaijanakatta
Te-form巨大できょだいで kyodaide
Before a noun巨大なきょだいな kyodaina
Adverb (~ni)巨大にきょだいに kyodaini

Kanji in 巨大

Related words

Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 巨大.

Source: JMdict entry 1232180 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.