VocabularyJLPT N5 · core

赤い

あかい
hepburn akai

red (adjective)

Part of speech · i-adjective

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Examples

  1. リンゴは赤いです。
    Apples are red.
  2. 赤い夕日がきれいです。
    The red sunset is beautiful.

Collocations

赤い (akai, red — i-adj)赤くなる (akaku naru, turn red)赤くする (akaku suru, make red)赤ワイン (aka wain, red wine)顔が赤い (kao ga akai, blush / face is red)

Mnemonic

赤い akai — i-adjective. Inflection: 赤い (predicative) / 赤く (adverbial, before naru/suru/te → 赤くなる "to turn red") / 赤かった (past) / 赤くない (negative). A separate noun form 赤 (aka) exists — like English splitting "red (noun)" vs "red (adj)" or Korean ppalganda vs ppalgang. High-frequency collocation: 顔が赤い = "face is red" (blushing, drunk, post-exercise). Textbook example of i-adjective inflection.

Quick check

  1. Natural Japanese for "the litmus turned red"?

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