子供っぽい
こどもっぽい
childish
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Examples
彼は少し子供っぽい。
かれはすこしこどもっぽい。
He's a little childish.
子供っぽい字を書く。
こどもっぽいじをかく。
She writes in a childish hand.
そんな子供っぽいことを言わないで。
そんなこどもっぽいことをいわないで。
Don't say such childish things.
三十歳だが、考え方が子供っぽい。
さんじゅっさいだが、かんがえかたがこどもっぽい。
He's thirty, but his thinking is childish.
Common patterns
- 子供っぽい考え
- childish thinking
- 子供っぽく見える
- to look childish
- 子供っぽい行動
- childish behaviour
Memory tip
〜っぽい attaches to nouns to mean "-ish", giving the handy pair 子供っぽい / 大人っぽい. It is a criticism of an adult; to say a child *is* childlike and sweet, use 子供らしい, which is positive.
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