勝気
かちき
competitive, strong-willed
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Examples
妹は勝気な性格だ。
いもうとはかちきなせいかくだ。
My sister has a competitive nature.
彼女は勝気で、負けても決して泣かない。
かのじょはかちきで、まけてもけっしてなかない。
She is strong-willed and never cries even when she loses.
勝気な人ほど、実は傷つきやすいそうだ。
かちきなひとほど、じつはきずつきやすいそうだ。
They say the more competitive someone is, the more easily they are actually hurt.
Common patterns
- 勝気な性格
- a competitive nature
- 勝気な女の子
- a spirited girl
- 勝気で負けず嫌い
- spirited and hating to lose
Memory tip
Literally a 'winning spirit': hating to lose and showing it. In everyday speech people say 負けず嫌い; 勝気 is a shade more literary and is used especially of girls and women in fiction.
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