Illustration: In a Japanese home's bathroom, an adult in rolled-up house clothes sits beside a filled bathtub and tests the water with a bare foot and one relaxed hand. Both remain comfortably submerged, but the adult's shoulders sag and their lips purse in mild disappointment.

JLPT N3i-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

ぬるい

nurui

lukewarm

Example sentences

  1. このビール、ぬるいよ。

    This beer is not cold enough.

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  2. このコーヒー、ぬるいね。

    This coffee is not hot enough.

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  3. ぬるいコーヒーは、好すきじゃないんだ。

    I don’t like lukewarm coffee.

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