新しい

Kana: あたらしい

new

Example sentence

新しいかばんを買いました。

あたらしいかばんをかいました。

I bought a new bag.

What 新しい means

新しい (あたらしい) is a Japanese word meaning “new”. 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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