若い
Appearance
Japanese
[edit]| Kanji in this term |
|---|
| 若 |
| わか Grade: 6 |
| kun'yomi |
Etymology
[edit]From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *waka.
Pronunciation
[edit]- Tokyo pitch accent of inflected forms of 若い
| Plain | 若い | わかい | [wàkáꜜì] |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conjunctive | 若くて | わかくて わかくて |
[wàkáꜜkùtè] [wáꜜkàkùtè] |
| Continuative | 若く | わかく わかく |
[wàkáꜜkù] [wáꜜkàkù] |
| Negative | 若くない | わかく・ない わかく・ない |
[wàkáꜜkù náꜜì] [wáꜜkàkù náꜜì] |
| Past | 若かった | わかかった わかかった |
[wàkáꜜkàttà] [wáꜜkàkàttà] |
| Negative past | 若くなかった | わかく・なかった わかく・なかった |
[wàkáꜜkù náꜜkàttà] [wáꜜkàkù náꜜkàttà] |
| Conditional | 若ければ | わかければ わかければ |
[wàkáꜜkèrèbà] [wáꜜkàkèrèbà] |
| Terminal | 若い | わかい | [wàkáꜜì] |
| Formal | 若いです | わかいです | [wàkáꜜì dèsù] |
Adjective
[edit]若い • (wakai) -i (adverbial 若く (wakaku))
- young, juvenile
- 1993 April 16, “夫婦ゲンカはネコが食う? [Would a Cat Eat a Marital Dispute?]”, in みかん絵日記 [Mikan Picture Diary], episode 23, spoken by as Tom Kusanagi, Sumi Shimamoto as Kikuko Kusanagi, Tarako as Mikan Kusanagi, and Kenichi Ono as Tōjirō Kusanagi (Akiko Hiramatsu), CBC, via TBS:
- あっ…お母さん!見て見て!これ お母さんでしょう?きれいだな!
- A'… Okā-san! Mite Mite! Kore okā-san deshō? Kirei da na!
- Oh… Oh right, Mom! Look! This is you, right? You were so beautiful!
- Sore wa obā-chan no wakai toki!
- That’s your grandma when she was young!
- Naisu rikabarī!
- Nice comeback!
- あっ…お母さん!見て見て!これ お母さんでしょう?きれいだな!
- energetic, fresh
- immature
- 考えが若い
- kangae ga wakai
- one's thought is immature
- 考えが若い
- lesser in an order, smaller, earlier
Usage notes
[edit]- The sense meaning "young" (sense 1) is typically only used for young adults, not children; see 幼い (osanai).
Inflection
[edit]| Stem forms | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Imperfective (未然形) | 若かろ | わかかろ | wakakaro |
| Continuative (連用形) | 若く | わかく | wakaku |
| Terminal (終止形) | 若い | わかい | wakai |
| Attributive (連体形) | 若い | わかい | wakai |
| Hypothetical (仮定形) | 若けれ | わかけれ | wakakere |
| Imperative (命令形) | 若かれ | わかかれ | wakakare |
| Key constructions | |||
| Informal negative | 若くない | わかくない | wakaku nai |
| Informal past | 若かった | わかかった | wakakatta |
| Informal negative past | 若くなかった | わかくなかった | wakaku nakatta |
| Formal | 若いです | わかいです | wakai desu |
| Formal negative | 若くないです | わかくないです | wakaku nai desu |
| Formal past | 若かったです | わかかったです | wakakatta desu |
| Formal negative past | 若くなかったです | わかくなかったです | wakaku nakatta desu |
| Conjunctive | 若くて | わかくて | wakakute |
| Conditional | 若ければ | わかければ | wakakereba |
| Provisional | 若かったら | わかかったら | wakakattara |
| Volitional | 若かろう | わかかろう | wakakarō |
| Adverbial | 若く | わかく | wakaku |
| Degree | 若さ | わかさ | wakasa |
Derived terms
[edit]- 気が若い (ki ga wakai): young at heart
References
[edit]- “若い”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia][1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2026
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