In Japanese, "small" is 小さい (Chiisai). It is a adjective pronounced "chee-ee-sah-ee".
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小さい is written in kanji and hiragana. Romanised as Chiisai, it sounds roughly like "chee-ee-sah-ee" to an English ear.
この猫はとても小さいです。
Kono neko wa totemo chiisai desu.
This cat is very small.
Chiisai (小さい) is an i-adjective meaning small or little. It can describe size, sound (small voice = chiisai koe), or age (small child = chiisai kodomo). Its opposite is ookii (big).
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Buy on Steam小さい is romanised as Chiisai. Say it roughly like "chee-ee-sah-ee" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
小さい 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.
小さい 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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