In Japanese, "light" is 軽い (Karui). It is a adjective pronounced "kah-roo-ee".
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軽い is written in kanji and hiragana. Romanised as Karui, it sounds roughly like "kah-roo-ee" to an English ear.
このカバンはとても軽いです。
Kono kaban wa totemo karui desu.
This bag is very light.
Karui (軽い) is an i-adjective meaning light in weight. It also describes mild or casual things, such as karui shokuji (a light meal) or karui undou (light exercise). Its opposite is omoi (heavy).
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Buy on Steam軽い is romanised as Karui. Say it roughly like "kah-roo-ee" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
軽い 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.
軽い 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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