JLPT N5 vocabulary
黒い: meaning, reading and conjugation
Reading and pitch accent
くろい2Nakadaka · falls inside
i-adjective
Meaning
- black
- dark, blackish, sun-tanned (skin)
- suspicious, criminal, illicit
- darkened and dirty, sooty, covered in dirt
- evil, wicked, black-hearted
- inauspicious, ill-boding, unlucky

Conjugation
| Form | Affirmative | Negative |
|---|---|---|
| Basics | ||
| Plain present普通形 | 黒い | 黒 |
| Plain past過去形 | 黒 | 黒 |
| Polite presentです形 | 黒い | 黒 |
| Polite pastでした形 | 黒 | 黒 |
| Te-formて形 | 黒 | 黒 |
| Modifying | ||
| Before a noun連体形 | 黒い | —not in common use |
| As an adverb連用形 | 黒 | —not in common use |
| Conditions and moods | ||
| If (-ba)ば形 | 黒 | 黒 |
| If / when (-tara)たら形 | 黒 | 黒 |