"黒い" meaning in Japanese

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Adjective

IPA: [kɯ̟ᵝɾo̞i]
Etymology: From Old Japanese. First attested in the Kojiki of 712 CE. See noun 黒 for details. This adjective was rendered in Old Japanese following ク活用 (ku katsuyō, “-ku conjugation”). Over time this shifted to an -i adjective, via the 連用形 (rentaikei, “attributive form”) of such, as all other -ku adjectives. Etymology templates: {{inh|ja|ojp|-|sort=くろい}} Old Japanese, {{C.E.|nodots=1}} CE, {{CE}} CE, {{m|ja|黒}} 黒, {{m|ja|ク活用|t=-ku conjugation|tr=ku katsuyō}} ク活用 (ku katsuyō, “-ku conjugation”), {{m|ja|連用形|t=attributive form|tr=rentaikei}} 連用形 (rentaikei, “attributive form”) Head templates: {{ja-adj|くろい|infl=i}} 黒(くろ)い • (kuroi) -i (adverbial 黒(くろ)く (kuroku)) 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=くろ|lemma=黒|provisional=かったら|terminal=い|volitional=かろう}}, {{ja-conj-bungo|くろ|adj-ku}} Forms: 黒い [canonical] (ruby: (くろ)), kuroi [romanization], 黒く [adverbial] (ruby: (くろ)), no-table-tags [table-tags], 黒かろ [imperfective, stem], くろかろ [imperfective, stem], kurokaro [imperfective], 黒く [continuative, stem], くろく [continuative, stem], kuroku [continuative], 黒い [stem, terminative], くろい [stem, terminative], kuroi [terminative], 黒い [attributive, stem], くろい [attributive, stem], kuroi [attributive], 黒けれ [hypothetical, stem], くろけれ [hypothetical, stem], kurokere [hypothetical], 黒かれ [imperative, stem], くろかれ [imperative, stem], kurokare [imperative], 黒くない [informal, negative], くろくない [informal, negative], kuroku nai [informal, negative], 黒かった [informal, past], くろかった [informal, past], kurokatta [informal, past], 黒くなかった [informal, negative, past], くろくなかった [informal, negative, past], kuroku nakatta [informal, negative, past], 黒いです [formal], くろいです [formal], kuroi desu [formal], 黒くないです [formal, negative], くろくないです [formal, negative], kuroku nai desu [formal, negative], 黒かったです [formal, past], くろかったです [formal, past], kurokatta desu [formal, past], 黒くなかったです [formal, negative, past], くろくなかったです [formal, negative, past], kuroku nakatta desu [formal, negative, past], 黒くて [conjunctive], くろくて [conjunctive], kurokute [conjunctive], 黒ければ [conditional], くろければ [conditional], kurokereba [conditional], 黒かったら [conditional, past], くろかったら [conditional, past], kurokattara [conditional, past], 黒かろう [volitional], くろかろう [volitional], kurokarō [volitional], 黒く [adverbial], くろく [adverbial], kuroku [adverbial], 黒さ [noun-from-adj], くろさ [noun-from-adj], kurosa [noun-from-adj], no-table-tags [table-tags], 黒く [irrealis, stem], 黒から [irrealis, stem], くろく [irrealis, stem], くろから [irrealis, stem], kuroku [irrealis], kurokara [irrealis], 黒く [continuative, stem], 黒かり [continuative, stem], くろく [continuative, stem], くろかり [continuative, stem], kuroku [continuative], kurokari [continuative], 黒し [stem, terminative], くろし [stem, terminative], kurosi [terminative], 黒き [attributive, stem], 黒かる [attributive, stem], くろき [attributive, stem], くろかる [attributive, stem], kuroki [attributive], kurokaru [attributive], 黒けれ [realis, stem], くろけれ [realis, stem], kurokere [realis], 黒かれ [imperative, stem], くろかれ [imperative, stem], kurokare [imperative], 黒からず [negative], くろからず [negative], kurokarazu [negative], 黒けれど [contrastive], くろけれど [contrastive], kurokeredo [contrastive], 黒ければ [causative], くろければ [causative], kurokereba [causative], 黒くば [conditional], くろくば [conditional], kurokuba [conditional], 黒かりき [past], くろかりき [past], kurokariki [past], 黒かりけり [past], くろかりけり [past], kurokarikeri [past], 黒く [adverbial], くろく [adverbial], kuroku [adverbial]
  1. black Wikipedia link: Kojiki Categories (topical): Blacks, Colors Related terms: (kuro) (ruby: (くろ)) (english: Noun form), 暗い

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      "form": "kuroku nakatta",
      "source": "inflection",
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      "form": "くろいです",
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      "tags": [
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    {
      "form": "kuroi desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
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    {
      "form": "黒くないです",
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        "past"
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        "past"
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      "form": "黒かったら",
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    {
      "form": "くろかったら",
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      "form": "kurokattara",
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      "form": "黒かろう",
      "source": "inflection",
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    {
      "form": "くろかろう",
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      "form": "kurosa",
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      "tags": [
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      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
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      "form": "ja-conj-bungo",
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      "form": "黒く",
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      "tags": [
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      "form": "黒から",
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      "tags": [
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    {
      "form": "kuroku",
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      "tags": [
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    },
    {
      "form": "kurokara",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "irrealis"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "黒く",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "黒かり",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くろく",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くろかり",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kuroku",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kurokari",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "黒し",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "stem",
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くろし",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "stem",
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kurosi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "黒き",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "黒かる",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くろき",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くろかる",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kuroki",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kurokaru",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "黒けれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "realis",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くろけれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "realis",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kurokere",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "realis"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "黒かれ",
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      "tags": [
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        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くろかれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kurokare",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "黒からず",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くろからず",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kurokarazu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "黒けれど",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "contrastive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くろけれど",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "contrastive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kurokeredo",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "contrastive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "黒ければ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くろければ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kurokereba",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "黒くば",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くろくば",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kurokuba",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
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    },
    {
      "form": "黒かりき",
      "source": "inflection",
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    },
    {
      "form": "くろかりき",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kurokariki",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "黒かりけり",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "くろかりけり",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kurokarikeri",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "黒く",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くろく",
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      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
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    },
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      "form": "kuroku",
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        "adverbial"
      ]
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  ],
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    {
      "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": "くろ",
        "lemma": "黒",
        "provisional": "かったら",
        "terminal": "い",
        "volitional": "かろう"
      },
      "name": "ja-adj-infl"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "くろ",
        "2": "adj-ku"
      },
      "name": "ja-conj-bungo"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "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 non-redundant manual transliterations",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "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 raw sortkeys",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "ja",
          "name": "Blacks",
          "orig": "ja:Blacks",
          "parents": [
            "Colors",
            "Light",
            "Vision",
            "Energy",
            "Senses",
            "Nature",
            "Perception",
            "All topics",
            "Body",
            "Fundamental",
            "Human"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "ja",
          "name": "Colors",
          "orig": "ja:Colors",
          "parents": [
            "Light",
            "Vision",
            "Energy",
            "Senses",
            "Nature",
            "Perception",
            "All topics",
            "Body",
            "Fundamental",
            "Human"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "ja",
          "name": "JLPT-5",
          "orig": "ja:JLPT-5",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "black"
      ],
      "id": "en-黒い-ja-adj-wAbH46sU",
      "links": [
        [
          "black",
          "black"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "english": "Noun form",
          "roman": "kuro",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "黒",
              "くろ"
            ]
          ],
          "word": "黒"
        },
        {
          "word": "暗い"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Kojiki"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "くろい"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[kɯ̟ᵝɾo̞i]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "黒い"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ja",
        "2": "ojp",
        "3": "-",
        "sort": "くろい"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Japanese",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "nodots": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "CE",
      "name": "C.E."
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "CE",
      "name": "CE"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ja",
        "2": "黒"
      },
      "expansion": "黒",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ja",
        "2": "ク活用",
        "t": "-ku conjugation",
        "tr": "ku katsuyō"
      },
      "expansion": "ク活用 (ku katsuyō, “-ku conjugation”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ja",
        "2": "連用形",
        "t": "attributive form",
        "tr": "rentaikei"
      },
      "expansion": "連用形 (rentaikei, “attributive form”)",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old Japanese. First attested in the Kojiki of 712 CE. See noun 黒 for details.\nThis adjective was rendered in Old Japanese following ク活用 (ku katsuyō, “-ku conjugation”). Over time this shifted to an -i adjective, via the 連用形 (rentaikei, “attributive form”) of such, as all other -ku adjectives.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "黒い",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "黒",
          "くろ"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kuroi",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "黒く",
      "roman": "kuroku",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "黒",
          "くろ"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ja-i",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "黒かろ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くろかろ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kurokaro",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "黒く",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くろく",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kuroku",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "黒い",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "stem",
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くろい",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "stem",
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kuroi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "黒い",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くろい",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kuroi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "黒けれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "hypothetical",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くろけれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "hypothetical",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kurokere",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "hypothetical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "黒かれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くろかれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kurokare",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "黒くない",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くろくない",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kuroku nai",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "黒かった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くろかった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kurokatta",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "黒くなかった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くろくなかった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kuroku nakatta",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "黒いです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くろいです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kuroi desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "黒くないです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くろくないです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kuroku nai desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "黒かったです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くろかったです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kurokatta desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "黒くなかったです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くろくなかったです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kuroku nakatta desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "黒くて",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くろくて",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kurokute",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "黒ければ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くろければ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kurokereba",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "黒かったら",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くろかったら",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kurokattara",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "黒かろう",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くろかろう",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kurokarō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "黒く",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くろく",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kuroku",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "黒さ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-adj"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くろさ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-adj"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kurosa",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-adj"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ja-conj-bungo",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "黒く",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "irrealis",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "黒から",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "irrealis",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くろく",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "irrealis",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くろから",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "irrealis",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kuroku",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "irrealis"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kurokara",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "irrealis"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "黒く",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "黒かり",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くろく",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くろかり",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kuroku",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kurokari",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "黒し",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "stem",
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くろし",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "stem",
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kurosi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "黒き",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "黒かる",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くろき",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くろかる",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kuroki",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kurokaru",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "黒けれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "realis",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くろけれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "realis",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kurokere",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "realis"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "黒かれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くろかれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kurokare",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "黒からず",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くろからず",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kurokarazu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "黒けれど",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "contrastive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くろけれど",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "contrastive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kurokeredo",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "contrastive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "黒ければ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くろければ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kurokereba",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "causative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "黒くば",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くろくば",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kurokuba",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "黒かりき",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くろかりき",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kurokariki",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "黒かりけり",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くろかりけり",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kurokarikeri",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "黒く",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "くろく",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kuroku",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "くろい",
        "infl": "i"
      },
      "expansion": "黒(くろ)い • (kuroi) -i (adverbial 黒(くろ)く (kuroku))",
      "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": "くろ",
        "lemma": "黒",
        "provisional": "かったら",
        "terminal": "い",
        "volitional": "かろう"
      },
      "name": "ja-adj-infl"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "くろ",
        "2": "adj-ku"
      },
      "name": "ja-conj-bungo"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "english": "Noun form",
      "roman": "kuro",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "黒",
          "くろ"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "黒"
    },
    {
      "word": "暗い"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Japanese adjectives",
        "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
        "Japanese entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "Japanese lemmas",
        "Japanese links with manual fragments",
        "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
        "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
        "Japanese terms derived from Old Japanese",
        "Japanese terms inherited from Old Japanese",
        "Japanese terms spelled with second grade kanji",
        "Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Japanese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
        "Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
        "Japanese terms written with one Han script character",
        "Japanese い-i adjectives",
        "Pages with raw sortkeys",
        "ja:Blacks",
        "ja:Colors",
        "ja:JLPT-5"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "black"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "black",
          "black"
        ]
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Kojiki"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "くろい"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[kɯ̟ᵝɾo̞i]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "黒い"
}
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  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
  "path": [
    "黒い"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "adjective",
  "title": "黒い",
  "trace": ""
}

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  "path": [
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  "subsection": "adjective",
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}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Japanese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). 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.