JLPT N2 · な-adjective

幼稚 (youchi)

幼稚 (ようち, youchi) is a Japanese な-adjective meaning “infancy”. It appears in JLPT N2 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading: ようち
Romaji: youchi
Word class: な-adjective
Level: JLPT N2 (unofficial)

Meaning

infancy · noun
childish; infantile; immature; primitive · な-adjective, noun

Example sentences

幼稚な説得とは、人をしつこく唆すことだ。

Crude persuasion is to persistently egg someone on.

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

Conjugation of 幼稚

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

Form	Japanese	Reading
Present (plain)	幼稚だ	ようちだ youchida
Present (polite)	幼稚です	ようちです youchidesu
Negative	幼稚じゃない	ようちじゃない youchijanai
Past	幼稚だった	ようちだった youchidatta
Negative past	幼稚じゃなかった	ようちじゃなかった youchijanakatta
Te-form	幼稚で	ようちで youchide
Before a noun	幼稚な	ようちな youchina
Adverb (~ni)	幼稚に	ようちに youchini

Kanji in 幼稚

infancy, childhoodヨウ・おさな.い · 5 strokes

immature, youngチ・ジ・いとけない・おさない · 13 strokes

Related words

Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 幼稚.

幼いおさないvery young幼児ようじyoung child幼稚園ようちえんkindergarten (in Japan, non-compulsory education from age 3 until primary school)

Source: JMdict entry 1545250 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.