JLPT N5 · い-adjective

長い (nagai)

長い (ながい, nagai) is a Japanese い-adjective meaning “long (distance, length)”. It appears in JLPT N5 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading
ながい
Romaji
nagai
Word class
い-adjective
Level
JLPT N5 (unofficial)

Meaning

  1. long (distance, length) · い-adjective
  2. long (time); protracted; prolonged · い-adjective

Example sentences

彼に長い手紙を書いた。
I wrote a long letter to him.
これは日本で2番目に長い川だ。
This is the second longest river in Japan.
株式市場は長い不振を続けている。
The stock market is in a prolonged slump.

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

Conjugation of 長い

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

FormJapaneseReading
Present長いながい nagai
Negative長くないながくない nagakunai
Past長かったながかった nagakatta
Negative past長くなかったながくなかった nagakunakatta
Te-form長くてながくて nagakute
Adverb (~ku)長くながく nagaku
Conditional (~ba)長ければながければ nagakereba

Kanji in 長い

Related words

Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 長い.

Source: JMdict entry 1429750 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.