寒い (さむい, samui) Japanese meaning: cold | KotomoraCommon word›JLPTN5›Freq.FrequencyTop 2,000寒い · i-adjective
| Form | Positive | Negative |
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| Dictionary | 寒い | 寒くない |
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| Polite | 寒いです | 寒くないですalso 寒くありません |
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| Past polite | 寒かったです | 寒くなかったですalso 寒くありませんでした |
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| Past | 寒かった | 寒くなかった |
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| Te-form | 寒くて | 寒くなくて |
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| Adverbial | 寒く | |
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| Conditional | 寒ければ | 寒くなければ |
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| Tara conditional | 寒かったら | 寒くなかったら |
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It's really cold today, isn't it?
Please close the window because it's cold.
Usage patterns
〈場所〉が寒いa place is cold
It's very cold outside today.
〈物〉が寒い(a joke, comment) falls flat; is cringe-inducing
His jokes always fall flat.
寒くなるto get cold; to turn cold
It suddenly gets cold at night.
寒くて〈動詞〉ないtoo cold to do something
It's too cold, so I don't want to go outside.
Expressions
懐が寒いstrapped for cash; hard up; short of money 大寒小寒first line of a children's cold-weather rhyme
wintry; very cold-looking · bleak; desolate; empty
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coldness; the cold; degree of cold
cold; brr
night cold; chill of night; cold night
morning cold; morning chill
autumnal chill; touch of cold in the air
chill; chilliness
cold at the end of autumn when dew turns to frost
cold; chilly · poor; unsatisfactory; inadequate
sensitive to cold; person who feels the cold easily
feel cold; complain about the cold
さぶいUsage1%
Dialectal or old-fashioned reading; rarely used in modern standard Japanese.
