黒(くろ)い

くろい
i-adjective
black
color
Conjugation
AffirmativeNegative
Present黒(くろ)い黒(くろ)くない
Past黒(くろ)かった黒(くろ)くなかった
て form黒(くろ)くて黒(くろ)くなくて
Adverbial黒(くろ)く—
Conditional ば黒(くろ)ければ黒(くろ)くなければ
Conditional たら黒(くろ)かったら黒(くろ)くなかったら
1. black
Having the darkest color, the opposite of white.
黒(くろ)い髪(かみ)がきれいです。
Your black hair is beautiful.
黒(くろ)い猫(ねこ)が好(す)きです。
I like black cats.
The sky turned black.
I wear a black suit to go to work.
It looks like it's going to rain. The sky is full of black clouds.

黒(くろ)い is an i-adjective meaning black - the darkest color.

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  • 暗(くら)い is the word for a place or room that has little light. Japanese does not use 黒(くろ)い for 'dark' in that sense: 部屋(へや)が暗(くら)い (the room is dark), not 黒(くろ)い. 黒(くろ)い describes the color of a thing.

Usage

黒(くろ) can also have figurative meanings like "guilty" (黒(くろ)だ - guilty) in contrast to 白(しろ) (innocent).