長い
ながい
hepburn nagai
long
Part of speech · i-adjective
Pattern visualization
Examples
- 長い髪が好きです。I like long hair.
- この映画は長いです。This movie is long.
Collocations
長い髪 (long hair)長い時間 (long time)長い間 (nagai aida, for a long time)長くなる (become longer)長さ (nagasa, length, noun)
Mnemonic
長い nagai — an i-adjective, "long," stretching through space and time alike. The opposite is 短い; long and short face off, one kanji against one kanji. Shifted into the onyomi ちょう, the kanji 長 grows from "long" into "head" — 校長 is the 長 of a school, 社長 the 長 of a company, 成長 a growing long. Kanji-reading kin: 長 reads Korean 'jang' (社長), Mandarin cháng / zhǎng.
Quick check
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