遅い

Kana: おそい

slow

Example sentence

このバスは遅いですね。

このばすはおそいですね。

This bus is slow, isn't it?

What 遅い means

遅い (おそい) is a Japanese word meaning “slow”. 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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