JLPT N5 vocabulary
甘い: meaning, reading and conjugation
Reading and pitch accent
あまい0Heiban · flat
i-adjective
Meaning
- sweet-tasting, sweet, sugary, sugared
- fragrant, sweet-sounding (music)
- lightly salted, low in salt, not spicy
- naive, overly optimistic, soft on, generous, indulgent, easy-going, lenient
- half-hearted, not properly finished
- insufficient, unsatisfactory, inadequate, loose
- mild
- tempting, enticing, luring
Conjugation
| Form | Affirmative | Negative |
|---|---|---|
| Basics | ||
| Plain present普通形 | 甘い | 甘 |
| Plain past過去形 | 甘 | 甘 |
| Polite presentです形 | 甘い | 甘 |
| Polite pastでした形 | 甘 | 甘 |
| Te-formて形 | 甘 | 甘 |
| Modifying | ||
| Before a noun連体形 | 甘い | —not in common use |
| As an adverb連用形 | 甘 | —not in common use |
| Conditions and moods | ||
| If (-ba)ば形 | 甘 | 甘 |
| If / when (-tara)たら形 | 甘 | 甘 |