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けんきょ · kenkyo

humble, modest

JLPT N3 na-adjective

Conjugation table

Form Japanese Reading
dictionary 謙虚 けんきょ
past 謙虚だった けんきょだった
negative 謙虚じゃない けんきょじゃない
te-form 謙虚で けんきょで

謙虚 in a sentence

  • Tomu wa totemo kenkyo da yo.

    Tom is very humble.

  • さぁって

    Omae saa, kenkyo sugiru tte.

    You're too humble.

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