JLPT N3 · い-adjective

鋭い (surudoi)

鋭い (するどい, surudoi) is a Japanese い-adjective meaning “sharp (knife, claws, etc.); pointed”. It appears in JLPT N3 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading: するどい
Romaji: surudoi
Word class: い-adjective
Level: JLPT N3 (unofficial)

Meaning

sharp (knife, claws, etc.); pointed · い-adjective
sharp (pain, tone, etc.); acute; stabbing; cutting (remark, criticism, etc.); stinging · い-adjective
keen (intuition, sense of smell, etc.); acute; sharp (eye, mind, etc.); astute; shrewd · い-adjective

Example sentences

そのナイフは刃が鋭い。

The knife has a very sharp edge.

Tatoeba #212860

ここに鋭い痛みがあります。

I have a sharp pain here.

Tatoeba #224443

猟犬は鋭い嗅覚で獲物を追う。

Hounds hunt by their keen scent.

Tatoeba #77908

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

Conjugation of 鋭い

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

Form	Japanese	Reading
Present	鋭い	するどい surudoi
Negative	鋭くない	するどくない surudokunai
Past	鋭かった	するどかった surudokatta
Negative past	鋭くなかった	するどくなかった surudokunakatta
Te-form	鋭くて	するどくて surudokute
Adverb (~ku)	鋭く	するどく surudoku
Conditional (~ba)	鋭ければ	するどければ surudokereba

Kanji in 鋭い

鋭

pointed, sharpness, edgeエイ・するど.い · 15 strokes

Source: JMdict entry 1174890 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.