First opened Sunday, August 26, 2018
そそっかしい
そそっかしい
- middle-high (nakadaka): falls after mora 5
How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).
careless, thoughtless
Taken apart
We don't have the data for this section. Wiktionary has no Etymology section for this reading, and a split made without one would be a guess.
In a sentence
バスに傘を忘れるとは彼女はそそっかしい。
It was careless of her to leave her umbrella in the bus.
私には彼はそそっかしすぎるように思われる。
It seems to me that he is too careless.
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What Wiktionary says
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What the labels mean
- 和語 Native Japanese
- Words that were already Japanese before Chinese vocabulary arrived — usually written with kun'yomi and often short.