古い

Kana: ふるい

old

Example sentence

これは古い木です。

これはふるいきです。

This is an old tree.

What 古い means

古い (ふるい) is an Japanese word meaning “old”. It belongs to the Describing Words topic and appears at Level 1, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.

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