JLPT N5 · い-adjective

黒い (kuroi)

黒い (くろい, kuroi) is a Japanese い-adjective meaning “black”. It appears in JLPT N5 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading: くろい
Romaji: kuroi
Word class: い-adjective
Level: JLPT N5 (unofficial)

Meaning

black · い-adjective
dark; blackish; sun-tanned (skin) · い-adjective
suspicious; criminal; illicit · い-adjective
darkened and dirty; sooty; covered in dirt · い-adjective
evil; wicked; black-hearted · い-adjective

Example sentences

丈の長い黒いコートを着た、あの長身の男だった。

It was the tall man in the long, black coat.

Tatoeba #146191

ナンシーはヘレンよりもほんのすこし色が黒い。

Nancy is a shade darker than Helen.

Tatoeba #198990

州知事は黒い金に手をつけました。

The governor took the money out of a slush fund.

Tatoeba #148233

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

Conjugation of 黒い

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

Form	Japanese	Reading
Present	黒い	くろい kuroi
Negative	黒くない	くろくない kurokunai
Past	黒かった	くろかった kurokatta
Negative past	黒くなかった	くろくなかった kurokunakatta
Te-form	黒くて	くろくて kurokute
Adverb (~ku)	黒く	くろく kuroku
Conditional (~ba)	黒ければ	くろければ kurokereba

Kanji in 黒い

blackコク・くろ・くろ.ずむ · 11 strokes

Related words

Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with 黒い.

黒くろblack黒板こくばんblackboard真っ黒まっくろpitch-black黒字くろじ(being in) the black

Source: JMdict entry 1287420 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.