JLPT N2 · い-adjective

騒がしい (sawagashii)

騒がしい (さわがしい, sawagashii) is a Japanese い-adjective meaning “noisy; boisterous”. It appears in JLPT N2 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading: さわがしい
Romaji: sawagashii
Word class: い-adjective
Level: JLPT N2 (unofficial)

Meaning

noisy; boisterous · い-adjective
turbulent (era, etc.); troubled · い-adjective

Example sentences

よく騒がしい部屋で働いたものだった。

I used to work in a noisy room.

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

Conjugation of 騒がしい

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

Form	Japanese	Reading
Present	騒がしい	さわがしい sawagashii
Negative	騒がしくない	さわがしくない sawagashikunai
Past	騒がしかった	さわがしかった sawagashikatta
Negative past	騒がしくなかった	さわがしくなかった sawagashikunakatta
Te-form	騒がしくて	さわがしくて sawagashikute
Adverb (~ku)	騒がしく	さわがしく sawagashiku
Conditional (~ba)	騒がしければ	さわがしければ sawagashikereba

Kanji in 騒がしい

騒

boisterous, make noise, clamorソウ・さわ.ぐ・うれい · 18 strokes

Related words

Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 騒がしい.

騒ぐさわぐto make noise騒ぎさわぎuproar騒音そうおんnoise物騒ぶっそうdangerous騒々しいそうぞうしいnoisy騒動そうどうriot

Source: JMdict entry 1403000 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.