JLPT N5 · い-adjective

辛い (karai)

辛い (からい, karai) is a Japanese い-adjective meaning “spicy; hot”. It appears in JLPT N5 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading
からい
Romaji
karai
Word class
い-adjective
Level
JLPT N5 (unofficial)

Meaning

  1. spicy; hot · い-adjective
  2. salty · い-adjective
  3. harsh (criticism); severe (punishment); strict · い-adjective
  4. painful; bitter; difficult; tough · い-adjective

Example sentences

私は辛い食物はあまり好きではない。
I don't care too much for hot food.
彼女は多くの辛い思いを経験してきた。
She has gone through many difficulties.

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

Conjugation of 辛い

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

FormJapaneseReading
Present辛いからい karai
Negative辛くないからくない karakunai
Past辛かったからかった karakatta
Negative past辛くなかったからくなかった karakunakatta
Te-form辛くてからくて karakute
Adverb (~ku)辛くからく karaku
Conditional (~ba)辛ければからければ karakereba

Kanji in 辛い

Related words

Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 辛い.

Source: JMdict entry 1365850 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.