Illustration: Outside a neighborhood bicycle shelter during rain, a small kitten crouches on the only dry corner of a flattened cardboard box. Its wet fur clings to its body, its ears droop, and one paw hovers uncertainly above a spreading puddle.

JLPT N3na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

かわいそう

kawaisou

pitiful, poor

Example sentences

  1. 私わたしは何匹なんびきかのかわいそうな猫ねこが追おい出だされるのを見みた。

    I saw some poor cats kicked out.

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  2. 私わたしはその少年しょうねんをかわいそうに思おもった。

    I felt sorry for the boy.

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  3. かわいそうにその女おんなの子こは失明しつめいした。

    The poor girl went blind.

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