Illustration: At a Japanese apartment breakfast table, a university student in rumpled pajamas struggles to lift a spoon toward a bowl of cereal. Their eyelids hang almost closed, their mouth stretches into a yawn, and their free hand props up a cheek.

JLPT N4i-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

眠ねむい

nemui

sleepy

Example sentences

  1. 今いまとても眠ねむい。

    I’m very sleepy now.

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  2. 眠ねむい！

    I’m sleepy!

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  3. 眠ねむいですか？

    Are you sleepy?

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Kanji in 眠

  • 眠sleep; dieOnミンKunねむる・ねむい

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