ひろい

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Japanese

Alternative spellings
広い
弘い
宏い
博い

Etymology 1

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *pirə.

Pronunciation

  • Tokyo pitch accent of inflected forms of 「広い」
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Continuative (連用形) 広く ひろく
ひろく
Terminal (終止形) 広い ひろい
Attributive (連体形) 広い ひろい
Key constructions
Informal negative 広くない ひろくない
ひろくない
Informal past 広かった ひろかった
ひろかった
Informal negative past 広くなかった ひろくなかった
ひろくなかった
Formal 広いです ひろいです
Conjunctive 広くて ひろくて
ひろくて
Conditional 広ければ ひろければ
ひろければ

Adjective

ひろい • (hiroi) -i (adverbial ひろく (hiroku))

  1. 広い, 弘い, 宏い: wide, broad
    その川(かわ)は広(ひろ)い。
    Sono kawa wa hiroi.
    That river is wide.
  2. 広い, 弘い, 宏い: spacious
    一(いち)番(ばん)広(ひろ)い都(と)道(どう)府(ふ)県(けん)
    ichiban hiroi todōfuken
    largest prefecture of Japan
  3. 広い, 弘い, 宏い: vast, large
  4. 広い, 弘い, 宏い, 博い: broad, wide-ranging
Inflection
Inflection of ひろい
Stem forms
Imperfective (未然形) ひろかろ hirokaro
Continuative (連用形) ひろく hiroku
Terminal (終止形) ひろい hiroi
Attributive (連体形) ひろい hiroi
Hypothetical (仮定形) ひろけれ hirokere
Imperative (命令形) ひろかれ hirokare
Key constructions
Informal negative ひろくない hiroku nai
Informal past ひろかった hirokatta
Informal negative past ひろくなかった hiroku nakatta
Formal ひろいです hiroi desu
Formal negative ひろくないです hiroku nai desu
Formal past ひろかったです hirokatta desu
Formal negative past ひろくなかったです hiroku nakatta desu
Conjunctive ひろくて hirokute
Conditional ひろければ hirokereba
Provisional ひろかったら hirokattara
Volitional ひろかろう hirokarō
Adverbial ひろく hiroku
Degree ひろさ hirosa
Antonyms
Derived terms
Derived terms

References

  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.

Etymology 2

For pronunciation and definitions of ひろい – see the following entry.
【広井】
a surname
(This term, ひろい (hiroi), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)
For a list of all kanji read as ひろい, see Category:Japanese kanji read as ひろい.)
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