JLPT N4 vocabulary
酷い: meaning, reading and conjugation
Reading and pitch accent
ひどい2Nakadaka · falls inside
i-adjective
Meaning
- cruel, heartless, hard, harsh, severe
- violent, intense, strong, heavy, extreme
- very bad, terrible, awful
- excessive, exorbitant, unreasonable, outrageous, unfair, unjust
Conjugation
| Form | Affirmative | Negative |
|---|---|---|
| Basics | ||
| Plain present普通形 | 酷い | 酷 |
| Plain past過去形 | 酷 | 酷 |
| Polite presentです形 | 酷い | 酷 |
| Polite pastでした形 | 酷 | 酷 |
| Te-formて形 | 酷 | 酷 |
| Modifying | ||
| Before a noun連体形 | 酷い | —not in common use |
| As an adverb連用形 | 酷 | —not in common use |
| Conditions and moods | ||
| If (-ba)ば形 | 酷 | 酷 |
| If / when (-tara)たら形 | 酷 | 酷 |
Example sentences
あの人の話し方はひどいったらないね。
That person's way of talking is extremely cruel.
あの会社のサービスはひどいんだ、 社員も社員なら会社も会社だ。
That company's service is awful. The employees are bad, and the company is just as bad.