JLPT N3 · い-adjective

濃い (koi)

濃い (こい, koi) is a Japanese い-adjective meaning “deep (colour); dark”. It appears in JLPT N3 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading: こい
Romaji: koi
Word class: い-adjective
Level: JLPT N3 (unofficial)

Meaning

deep (colour); dark · い-adjective
strong (flavour, smell, etc.) · い-adjective
thick (consistency); dense · い-adjective
strong (possibility, etc.) · い-adjective
thick (i.e. "as thick as thieves"); close; deep (love, etc.) · い-adjective

Example sentences

そのピアノは美しい、濃い褐色の木で作られていました。

The piano was made of beautiful, dark brown wood.

Tatoeba #212704

コーヒーはどんなふうにしましょうか。濃いブラックがいいですか。

How do you like your coffee? Strong and black?

Tatoeba #224910

血は水よりも濃し。

Blood is thicker than water.

Tatoeba #175710

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

Conjugation of 濃い

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

Form	Japanese	Reading
Present	濃い	こい koi
Negative	濃くない	こくない kokunai
Past	濃かった	こかった kokatta
Negative past	濃くなかった	こくなかった kokunakatta
Te-form	濃くて	こくて kokute
Adverb (~ku)	濃く	こく koku
Conditional (~ba)	濃ければ	こければ kokereba

Kanji in 濃い

濃

concentrated, thick, darkノウ・こ.い · 16 strokes

Related words

Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 濃い.

濃度のうどconcentration

Source: JMdict entry 1469890 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.