JLPT N2 · な-adjective

斜め (naname)

斜め (ななめ, naname) is a Japanese な-adjective meaning “slanting; tilted”. It appears in JLPT N2 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading: ななめ
Romaji: naname
Word class: な-adjective
Level: JLPT N2 (unofficial)

Meaning

slanting; tilted; sloping; diagonal; oblique · noun taking の, な-adjective, noun
distorted (feeling); slanted (e.g. view of the world); bad (mood); amiss; awry · noun taking の, な-adjective, noun

Example sentences

えらくご機嫌ななめね、けんか腰にならないで。

Wow, you're really in a bad mood. Don't get scrappy.

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

Conjugation of 斜め

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

Form	Japanese	Reading
Present (plain)	斜めだ	ななめだ nanameda
Present (polite)	斜めです	ななめです nanamedesu
Negative	斜めじゃない	ななめじゃない nanamejanai
Past	斜めだった	ななめだった nanamedatta
Negative past	斜めじゃなかった	ななめじゃなかった nanamejanakatta
Te-form	斜めで	ななめで nanamede
Before a noun	斜めな	ななめな nanamena
Adverb (~ni)	斜めに	ななめに nanameni

Kanji in 斜め

斜

diagonal, slanting, obliqueシャ・なな.め・はす · 11 strokes

Related words

Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 斜め.

斜はすdiagonal傾斜けいしゃinclination斜面しゃめんslope

Source: JMdict entry 1322400 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.