Illustration: A visitor pauses outside a detached house on a quiet Japanese residential street. Just behind the securely closed garden gate, a large dog plants its paws wide, raises its hackles, and bares its teeth directly at the visitor.

JLPT N1i-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

おっかない

okkanai

scary, frightening

Colloquial. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 妻つまがおっかないんだ。

    I’m afraid of my wife.

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  2. それを飲のむのはおっかないな。

    I’m afraid to drink it.

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  3. マジでおっかない蜘蛛くもがいた。

    I just saw a really scary spider.

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