JLPT N3 · な-adjective

機嫌 (kigen)

機嫌 (きげん, kigen) is a Japanese な-adjective meaning “humour; humor”. It appears in JLPT N3 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading
きげん
Romaji
kigen
Word class
な-adjective
Level
JLPT N3 (unofficial)

Meaning

  1. humour; humor; temper; mood; spirits · noun
  2. safety; health; well-being; one's situation · noun
  3. in a good mood; in high spirits; happy; cheery; merry · な-adjective · usu. as ご機嫌

Example sentences

彼は他人の機嫌を損ねないように気をつけている。
He is chary of offending people.

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

Conjugation of 機嫌

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

FormJapaneseReading
Present (plain)機嫌だきげんだ kigenda
Present (polite)機嫌ですきげんです kigendesu
Negative機嫌じゃないきげんじゃない kigenjanai
Past機嫌だったきげんだった kigendatta
Negative past機嫌じゃなかったきげんじゃなかった kigenjanakatta
Te-form機嫌できげんで kigende
Before a noun機嫌なきげんな kigenna
Adverb (~ni)機嫌にきげんに kigenni

Kanji in 機嫌

Related words

Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 機嫌.

Source: JMdict entry 1220930 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.