In Japanese, "shallow" is 浅い (Asai). It is a adjective pronounced "ah-sah-ee".
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浅い is written in kanji and hiragana. Romanised as Asai, it sounds roughly like "ah-sah-ee" to an English ear.
この池はとても浅いです。
Kono ike wa totemo asai desu.
This pond is very shallow.
Asai (浅い) is an i-adjective meaning shallow. It is used for water depth as well as abstract shallowness, such as asai chishiki (shallow knowledge) or asai nemuri (light sleep). Its opposite is fukai (deep).
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Buy on Steam浅い is romanised as Asai. Say it roughly like "ah-sah-ee" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
浅い 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.
浅い 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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