Illustration: In the genkan of a Japanese family home, a toddler sits on the low step trying to put on a pair of tiny shoes. One shoe is on the wrong foot, and the child holds the other with intense concentration while a parent crouches nearby, ready to help.

JLPT N3i-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

幼おさない

osanai

very young

Example sentences

彼女かのじょは幼おさなくて学校がっこうには行いけません。
She is too young to go to school.
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その幼おさない少年しょうねんは父親ちちおやの両肩りょうかたの上うえに乗のっていた。
The little boy sat on his father’s shoulders.
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幼おさない子供こどもは語彙ごいが少すくない。
A young child has a small vocabulary.
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Kanji in 幼

幼infancy; childhoodOnヨウKunおさない

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