貧しい

Kana: まずしい

poor

Example sentence

彼の家は貧しいです。

かれのいえはまずしいです。

His family is poor.

What 貧しい means

貧しい (まずしい) is a Japanese word meaning “poor”. 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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