少ない

Kana: すくない

few; little

Example sentence

ここは人が少ないです。

ここはひとがすくないです。

There are few people here.

What 少ない means

少ない (すくない) is a Japanese word meaning “few; little”. 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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