Japanese word
甘い
あまい
In your course · Chapter 13
- Part of speech
- adjective
- Level
- A2
- Frequency
- No. 911 in the course corpus
Meanings
- sweet
- sweet-tasting
- sugary
- sugared
- fragrant (smelling)
- sweet (music)
- lightly salted
- light in salt
- not spicy
- indulgent
- lenient
- soft (on)
- easy-going
- generous
- naive
- overly optimistic
- simplistic
- half-hearted
- not finished properly
- insufficient
- not satisfactory
- inadequate
- loose
- mild
- tempting
- enticing
- luring
Source: Tonada course · JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0 (EDRDG Licence))
Kanji
- 甘
- On reading:
- カン
- Kun reading:
- あま.い、あま.える、あま.やかす、うま.い
- Meanings:
- sweet, coax, pamper, be content, sugary
Source: KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0 (EDRDG Licence))