硬い

Kana: かたい

hard; stiff

Example sentence

このパンは硬いです。

このぱんはかたいです。

This bread is hard.

What 硬い means

硬い (かたい) is a Japanese word meaning “hard; stiff”. It belongs to the Describing Words topic and appears at Level 3 (and again in Level 4), so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.

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