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楽しい (たのしい, tanoshii) Japanese meaning: enjoyable | Kotomora
Common word› JLPT N5 › Freq. Frequency Top 500 Conjugation 楽しい · i-adjective
Form Positive Negative Dictionary 楽たの しい 楽たの しくない Polite 楽たの しいです 楽たの しくないです also 楽たの しくありません Past polite 楽たの しかったです 楽たの しくなかったです also 楽たの しくありませんでした Past 楽たの しかった 楽たの しくなかった Te-form 楽たの しくて 楽たの しくなくて Adverbial 楽たの しく Conditional 楽たの しければ 楽たの しくなければ Tara conditional 楽たの しかったら 楽たの しくなかったら
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Yesterday's party was really fun.
Traveling is always enjoyable, isn't it?
Usage patterns 〈 事こと 〉 が 楽たの しい to find ~ enjoyable
Traveling with friends is fun.
楽たの しい 時じ 間かん を 過す ごす to spend an enjoyable time
I spent a fun time with everyone.
〈 人ひと 〉 と 楽たの しく 〈 動どう 詞し 〉 to do something enjoyably with someone
I enjoyed a meal with my family.
楽たの しそうに 〈 動どう 詞し 〉 to do something looking like one is having fun
The children are playing happily.
Kanji 愉 pleasure, happy, rejoice Related words 嬉しい expresses personal happiness at a specific event, while 楽しい describes an activity or experience as enjoyable in itself.
面白い suggests something interesting or amusing, often intellectually, while 楽しい focuses on straightforward fun and enjoyment.
愉快 is a slightly more formal or literary word for feeling cheerful and amused, whereas 楽しい is the everyday word for enjoyable.
Opposites つまらない means boring or dull, the direct opposite of 楽しい's sense of being enjoyable or fun.
悲しい means sad, contrasting with 楽しい's sense of being pleasant and enjoyable.
楽しい means fun or enjoyable, the emotional opposite of 辛い's painful or heartbreaking feeling.
Don't confuse with 楽しい is an い-adjective meaning 'fun/enjoyable' describing a state, while 楽しむ is the verb meaning 'to enjoy (something)'.
楽しい is an i-adjective describing something as fun or enjoyable, while 楽しみ is the noun for the feeling of enjoyment or the thing being anticipated.
楽しい shares the kanji 楽 but means 'fun/enjoyable', a completely different meaning from 楽々 'easily, with ease'.
Word family enjoyment; pleasure; fun · anticipation; looking forward to
enjoy; have fun; take pleasure in · look forward to
happy-looking; cheerful; pleasant
enjoyment; pleasure; fun · anticipation; something to look forward to
Written forms 楽たの しい Usage 95%
Standard kanji spelling; high priority.
たのしい Usage 3%
愉たの しい Usage 1%
rarely-used kanji form
Rarely used kanji form.
樂たの しい Usage <1%
Etymology The adjective continues classical たのし, “pleasant; enjoyable,” and shares its stem with the derived verb 楽しむ. 楽 is a meaning-based kanji spelling.
楽しい (たのしい) means 'fun/enjoyable' and describes emotional pleasure, while 楽 (らく) means 'easy/comfortable' and describes lack of effort or burden; learners often mix up the two because they share the same kanji.
amuse; entertain; delight
Search-only old-form kanji (kyūjitai); not used in modern writing.
