痛い
いたい
hepburn itai
painful, hurt
Part of speech · i-adjective
Pattern visualization
no decomposition available
Examples
- 頭が痛いです。My head hurts.
- 昨日からお腹が痛いです。My stomach has been hurting since yesterday.
Collocations
頭が痛い (headache)お腹が痛い (stomachache)痛くなる (start hurting)痛い目に遭う (have a hard time, idiom)痛み (itami, pain noun)
Mnemonic
痛い itai — an i-adjective; the hurting place rises marked by が — 頭が痛い, 歯が痛い, お腹が痛い. It overlaps the Korean "apeuda" without a single cell out of place. Hardened into a noun it becomes 痛み, the weight of a single point of pain. "Itai me ni au" — to meet painful eyes — means to live through a hard time. Kanji-reading kin: 痛 surfaces as Korean 'tong' (苦痛), Mandarin tòng.
Quick check
"My back hurts" at the doctor — natural Japanese?