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えらい · erai

great, admirable

JLPT N3 i-adjective

Conjugation table

Form Japanese Reading
dictionary 偉い えらい
past 偉かった えらかった
negative 偉くない えらくない
te-form 偉くて えらくて

偉い in a sentence

  • Mukashi hitori no erai ousama ga sunde ita.

    Once there lived a great king.

  • ない

    Erai hito wa minari o ki ni shinai.

    A great man doesn't care about his appearance.

Example sentences from the Tatoeba Project, CC-BY 2.0 FR, licensed for reuse.