安い

Pattern visualization

Examples

1. このシャツは安いです。▶ —
   This shirt is cheap.
2. 安くて美味しいレストランです。▶ —
   It's a cheap and tasty restaurant.

Collocations

Mnemonic

安い yasui-cheap — price-cheap. Same Hepburn as 易い (easy) but lives under yasui-cheap slug; "easy" is rare in N5 contexts. The kanji 安 itself means "peace/safety": 安心 anshin (peace of mind), 安全 anzen (safety).

Quick check

1. How do you connect two i-adjectives like "cheap and tasty"?

   • 安くて美味しい (correct, -くて connector)
   • 安いと美味しい (= "if cheap, then tasty", wrong)
   • 安いで美味しい (wrong)
   • 安い美味しい (no connector, wrong)