JLPT N1 · な-adjective

空腹 (kuufuku)

空腹 (くうふく, kuufuku) is a Japanese な-adjective meaning “empty stomach; hunger”. It appears in JLPT N1 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading
くうふく
Romaji
kuufuku
Word class
な-adjective
Level
JLPT N1 (unofficial)

Meaning

  1. empty stomach; hunger · noun, な-adjective, noun taking の

Example sentences

その食事で彼は空腹を満たした。
The meal satisfied his hunger.

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

Conjugation of 空腹

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

FormJapaneseReading
Present (plain)空腹だくうふくだ kuufukuda
Present (polite)空腹ですくうふくです kuufukudesu
Negative空腹じゃないくうふくじゃない kuufukujanai
Past空腹だったくうふくだった kuufukudatta
Negative past空腹じゃなかったくうふくじゃなかった kuufukujanakatta
Te-form空腹でくうふくで kuufukude
Before a noun空腹なくうふくな kuufukuna
Adverb (~ni)空腹にくうふくに kuufukuni

Kanji in 空腹

Related words

Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 空腹.

Source: JMdict entry 1246000 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.