What does 厳しい mean in Japanese?

厳しい (きびしい) means "strict" in Japanese.

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Q: How do you use 厳しい in a sentence?

先生は私たちに厳しいです。 (せんせいはわたしたちにきびしいです。) — The teacher is strict with us.

Kana: きびしい

strict

Example sentence

先生は私たちに厳しいです。

せんせいはわたしたちにきびしいです。

The teacher is strict with us.

What 厳しい means

厳しい (きびしい) is a Japanese word meaning “strict”. It belongs to the Describing Words topic and appears at Level 2 (and again in Level 4), so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.

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Level 2

嬉しいうれしい happy; glad すぎるすぎる too; excessively 正しいただしい correct; right 間違いまちがい wrong; mistake 背が低いせがひくい short (in height) お腹いっぱいおなかいっぱい full (from eating) お腹がすくおなかがすく hungry 合うあう suitable; to fit 壊れるこわれる to break; broken 急ぐいそぐ to hurry; urgent 簡単かんたん simple 足りないたりない lacking; not enough

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