N5 grammar

〜かった

katta

Past i-adjectives

Formation

An i-adjective carries its own past tense: い becomes かった. です follows it unchanged, which is why 高かったです looks lopsided at first. The one thing to avoid is 高いでした.

Examples

〜かった is marked in each sentence. Tap any word for its dictionary entry.

  1. Did you enjoy your winter holidays?

  2. The schoolyard was very small.

  3. I wish I were a bird.

  4. A visitor has kept me busy till now.

  5. No offense was meant.

The explanation is ours, written for this site. Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), each machine-checked to actually contain the pattern. Furigana is generated automatically, so a rare reading may be imperfect.