"つつましい" meaning in Japanese

See つつましい in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: [t͡sɨt͡sɨma̠ɕiː]
Head templates: {{ja-adj|hhira=つつましい|infl=i}} つつましい • (tsutsumashii) ^(←つつましい (tutumasii)?)-i (adverbial つつましく (tsutsumashiku)) Inflection templates: {{ja-adj-infl|adverbial=く|attributive=い|conditional=ければ|conjunctive=くて|continuative=く|degree=さ|formal=い です|formal_negative=く ない です|formal_negative_past=く なかった です|formal_past=かった です|hypothetical=けれ|imperative=かれ|imperfective=かろ|informal_negative=く ない|informal_negative_past=く なかった|informal_past=かった|kana=|lemma=つつまし|provisional=かったら|terminal=い|volitional=かろう}} Forms: tsutsumashii [romanization], tutumasii [romanization], つつましく [adverbial], no-table-tags [table-tags], つつましかろ [imperfective, stem], tsutsumashikaro [imperfective, stem], つつましく [continuative, stem], tsutsumashiku [continuative, stem], つつましい [stem, terminative], tsutsumashii [stem, terminative], つつましい [attributive, stem], tsutsumashii [attributive, stem], つつましけれ [hypothetical, stem], tsutsumashikere [hypothetical, stem], つつましかれ [imperative, stem], tsutsumashikare [imperative, stem], つつましくない [informal, negative], tsutsumashiku nai [informal, negative], つつましかった [informal, past], tsutsumashikatta [informal, past], つつましくなかった [informal, negative, past], tsutsumashiku nakatta [informal, negative, past], つつましいです [formal], tsutsumashii desu [formal], つつましくないです [formal, negative], tsutsumashiku nai desu [formal, negative], つつましかったです [formal, past], tsutsumashikatta desu [formal, past], つつましくなかったです [formal, negative, past], tsutsumashiku nakatta desu [formal, negative, past], つつましくて [conjunctive], tsutsumashikute [conjunctive], つつましければ [conditional], tsutsumashikereba [conditional], つつましかったら [conditional, past], tsutsumashikattara [conditional, past], つつましかろう [volitional], tsutsumashikarō [volitional], つつましく [adverbial], tsutsumashiku [adverbial], つつましさ [noun-from-adj], tsutsumashisa [noun-from-adj]
  1. modest; humble Related terms: 慎む (tsutsushimu) (ruby: (つつし))
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tsutsumashii",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tutumasii",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "つつましく",
      "roman": "tsutsumashiku",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ja-i",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "つつましかろ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tsutsumashikaro",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "つつましく",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tsutsumashiku",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "つつましい",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "stem",
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tsutsumashii",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "stem",
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "つつましい",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tsutsumashii",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "つつましけれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "hypothetical",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tsutsumashikere",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "hypothetical",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "つつましかれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tsutsumashikare",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "つつましくない",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tsutsumashiku nai",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "つつましかった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tsutsumashikatta",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "つつましくなかった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tsutsumashiku nakatta",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "つつましいです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tsutsumashii desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "つつましくないです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tsutsumashiku nai desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "つつましかったです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tsutsumashikatta desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "つつましくなかったです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tsutsumashiku nakatta desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "つつましくて",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tsutsumashikute",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "つつましければ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tsutsumashikereba",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "つつましかったら",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tsutsumashikattara",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "つつましかろう",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tsutsumashikarō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "つつましく",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tsutsumashiku",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "つつましさ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-adj"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tsutsumashisa",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-adj"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "hhira": "つつましい",
        "infl": "i"
      },
      "expansion": "つつましい • (tsutsumashii) ^(←つつましい (tutumasii)?)-i (adverbial つつましく (tsutsumashiku))",
      "name": "ja-adj"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "adverbial": "く",
        "attributive": "い",
        "conditional": "ければ",
        "conjunctive": "くて",
        "continuative": "く",
        "degree": "さ",
        "formal": "い です",
        "formal_negative": "く ない です",
        "formal_negative_past": "く なかった です",
        "formal_past": "かった です",
        "hypothetical": "けれ",
        "imperative": "かれ",
        "imperfective": "かろ",
        "informal_negative": "く ない",
        "informal_negative_past": "く なかった",
        "informal_past": "かった",
        "kana": "",
        "lemma": "つつまし",
        "provisional": "かったら",
        "terminal": "い",
        "volitional": "かろう"
      },
      "name": "ja-adj-infl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with manual fragments",
          "parents": [
            "Links with manual fragments",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
          "parents": [
            "Links with redundant alt parameters",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
          "parents": [
            "Links with redundant wikilinks",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "humble lifestyle",
          "roman": "tsutsumashii seikatsu",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "慎",
              "つつ"
            ],
            [
              "生",
              "せい"
            ],
            [
              "活",
              "かつ"
            ]
          ],
          "text": "慎ましい生活",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "modest meal",
          "roman": "tsutsumashii shokuji",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "慎",
              "つつ"
            ],
            [
              "食",
              "しょく"
            ],
            [
              "事",
              "じ"
            ]
          ],
          "text": "慎ましい食事",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "modest; humble"
      ],
      "id": "en-つつましい-ja-adj-2mEUTL7Q",
      "links": [
        [
          "modest",
          "modest"
        ],
        [
          "humble",
          "humble"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "roman": "tsutsushimu",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "慎",
              "つつし"
            ]
          ],
          "word": "慎む"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "つつましい"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[t͡sɨt͡sɨma̠ɕiː]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "つつましい"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tsutsumashii",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tutumasii",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "つつましく",
      "roman": "tsutsumashiku",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ja-i",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "つつましかろ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tsutsumashikaro",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "つつましく",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tsutsumashiku",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "つつましい",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "stem",
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tsutsumashii",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "stem",
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "つつましい",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tsutsumashii",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "つつましけれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "hypothetical",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tsutsumashikere",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "hypothetical",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "つつましかれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tsutsumashikare",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "つつましくない",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tsutsumashiku nai",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "つつましかった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tsutsumashikatta",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "つつましくなかった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tsutsumashiku nakatta",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "つつましいです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tsutsumashii desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "つつましくないです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tsutsumashiku nai desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "つつましかったです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tsutsumashikatta desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "つつましくなかったです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tsutsumashiku nakatta desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "つつましくて",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tsutsumashikute",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "つつましければ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tsutsumashikereba",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "つつましかったら",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tsutsumashikattara",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "つつましかろう",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tsutsumashikarō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "つつましく",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tsutsumashiku",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "つつましさ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-adj"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "tsutsumashisa",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-adj"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "hhira": "つつましい",
        "infl": "i"
      },
      "expansion": "つつましい • (tsutsumashii) ^(←つつましい (tutumasii)?)-i (adverbial つつましく (tsutsumashiku))",
      "name": "ja-adj"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "adverbial": "く",
        "attributive": "い",
        "conditional": "ければ",
        "conjunctive": "くて",
        "continuative": "く",
        "degree": "さ",
        "formal": "い です",
        "formal_negative": "く ない です",
        "formal_negative_past": "く なかった です",
        "formal_past": "かった です",
        "hypothetical": "けれ",
        "imperative": "かれ",
        "imperfective": "かろ",
        "informal_negative": "く ない",
        "informal_negative_past": "く なかった",
        "informal_past": "かった",
        "kana": "",
        "lemma": "つつまし",
        "provisional": "かったら",
        "terminal": "い",
        "volitional": "かろう"
      },
      "name": "ja-adj-infl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "roman": "tsutsushimu",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "慎",
          "つつし"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "慎む"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Japanese adjectives",
        "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
        "Japanese hiragana",
        "Japanese lemmas",
        "Japanese links with manual fragments",
        "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
        "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
        "Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
        "Japanese terms with usage examples",
        "Japanese い-i adjectives",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "humble lifestyle",
          "roman": "tsutsumashii seikatsu",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "慎",
              "つつ"
            ],
            [
              "生",
              "せい"
            ],
            [
              "活",
              "かつ"
            ]
          ],
          "text": "慎ましい生活",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "modest meal",
          "roman": "tsutsumashii shokuji",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "慎",
              "つつ"
            ],
            [
              "食",
              "しょく"
            ],
            [
              "事",
              "じ"
            ]
          ],
          "text": "慎ましい食事",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "modest; humble"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "modest",
          "modest"
        ],
        [
          "humble",
          "humble"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "つつましい"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[t͡sɨt͡sɨma̠ɕiː]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "つつましい"
}

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  "msg": "HTML tag <span> not properly closed",
  "path": [
    "つつましい"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "adjective",
  "title": "つつましい",
  "trace": "started on line 2, detected on line 2"
}

{
  "called_from": "parser/1336",
  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
  "path": [
    "つつましい"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "adjective",
  "title": "つつましい",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Japanese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.