In Japanese, "deep" is 深い (fukai). It is a adjective pronounced "foo-kah-ee".
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深い is written in kanji and hiragana. Romanised as fukai, it sounds roughly like "foo-kah-ee" to an English ear.
この川はとても深いです。
Kono kawa wa totemo fukai desu.
This river is very deep.
Fukai (深い) is an i-adjective meaning deep. It is used for water, holes, and abstract depths such as deep feelings or a deep understanding of a subject.
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Buy on Steam深い is romanised as fukai. Say it roughly like "foo-kah-ee" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
深い is an i-adjective. The form shown is the plain form, which works in casual speech. To make it polite, add desu at the end of the sentence. The word itself does not change.
深い is written using kanji and hiragana. Kanji characters carry the core meaning; any hiragana or katakana that follow show grammatical endings.
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