酸っぱい

Kana: すっぱい

sour

Example sentence

このりんごは少し酸っぱいです。

このりんごはすこしすっぱいです。

This apple is a little sour.

What 酸っぱい means

酸っぱい (すっぱい) is a Japanese word meaning “sour”. It belongs to the Describing Words topic and appears at Level 3, so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.

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