JLPT N5 · い-adjective

悪い (warui)

悪い (わるい, warui) is a Japanese い-adjective meaning “bad; poor”. It appears in JLPT N5 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading: わるい
Romaji: warui
Word class: い-adjective
Level: JLPT N5 (unofficial)

Meaning

bad; poor; undesirable · い-adjective
poor (quality); inferior; insufficient · い-adjective
evil; sinful · い-adjective
ugly; not beautiful · い-adjective
at fault; to blame; in the wrong · い-adjective

Example sentences

「顔色がわるいけど具合が悪いのかい」「そういうわけでもないよ」

"You look pale. Are you sick?" "Not exactly."

Tatoeba #236368

私のステレオはあなたのより音質が悪い。

My stereo set is inferior to yours in sound quality.

Tatoeba #164171

すいません。あなたに悪いことをしました。

I'm sorry. I did you wrong.

Tatoeba #215129

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

Conjugation of 悪い

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

Form	Japanese	Reading
Present	悪い	わるい warui
Negative	悪くない	わるくない warukunai
Past	悪かった	わるかった warukatta
Negative past	悪くなかった	わるくなかった warukunakatta
Te-form	悪くて	わるくて warukute
Adverb (~ku)	悪く	わるく waruku
Conditional (~ba)	悪ければ	わるければ warukereba

Kanji in 悪い

bad, vice, rascalアク・オ・わる.い・わる- · 11 strokes

Related words

Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 悪い.

悪あくevil悪魔あくまdevil悪口わるくち(verbal) abuse意地悪いじわるmalicious悪化あっかdeterioration悪者わるものbad guy善し悪しよしあしright or wrong悪しからずあしからずdon't get me wrong, but ...改悪かいあくchanging (something) for the worse

Source: JMdict entry 1151260 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.