JLPT N4 vocabulary
凄い: meaning, reading and conjugation
Reading and pitch accent
すごい2Nakadaka · falls inside
i-adjective
Meaning
- terrible, dreadful
- amazing (e.g. of strength), great (e.g. of skills), wonderful, terrific
- to a great extent, vast (in numbers)
- (adverb) (colloquial) awfully, very, immensely
Conjugation
| Form | Affirmative | Negative |
|---|---|---|
| Basics | ||
| Plain present普通形 | 凄い | 凄 |
| Plain past過去形 | 凄 | 凄 |
| Polite presentです形 | 凄い | 凄 |
| Polite pastでした形 | 凄 | 凄 |
| Te-formて形 | 凄 | 凄 |
| Modifying | ||
| Before a noun連体形 | 凄い | —not in common use |
| As an adverb連用形 | 凄 | —not in common use |
| Conditions and moods | ||
| If (-ba)ば形 | 凄 | 凄 |
| If / when (-tara)たら形 | 凄 | 凄 |
Example sentences
毎日運動するおかげですごく高く跳べます。
Because I exercise every day, I can jump amazingly high.
すごい! 田中さんはジャンプをしながら歌います!
Wow! Tanaka sings while jumping!
今日はすごい雨だったね!それはそうと風邪は治った?
Today was really rainy! By the way, did your cold get better?