JLPT N3 · な-adjective

深刻 (shinkoku)

深刻 (しんこく, shinkoku) is a Japanese な-adjective meaning “serious; severe”. It appears in JLPT N3 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading
しんこく
Romaji
shinkoku
Word class
な-adjective
Level
JLPT N3 (unofficial)

Meaning

  1. serious; severe; grave; acute · な-adjective, noun

Example sentences

事態は非常に深刻である。
The situation is very serious.

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

Conjugation of 深刻

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

FormJapaneseReading
Present (plain)深刻だしんこくだ shinkokuda
Present (polite)深刻ですしんこくです shinkokudesu
Negative深刻じゃないしんこくじゃない shinkokujanai
Past深刻だったしんこくだった shinkokudatta
Negative past深刻じゃなかったしんこくじゃなかった shinkokujanakatta
Te-form深刻でしんこくで shinkokude
Before a noun深刻なしんこくな shinkokuna
Adverb (~ni)深刻にしんこくに shinkokuni

Kanji in 深刻

Related words

Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 深刻.

Source: JMdict entry 1362730 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.