気味
きみ
a touch of, a tendency towards, -ish; feeling, sensation
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Examples
今日は風邪気味です。
きょうはかぜぎみです。
I have a bit of a cold today.
最近、少し疲れ気味です。
さいきん、すこしつかれぎみです。
Lately I've been feeling somewhat tired.
この家は何だか気味が悪いです。
このいえはなんだかきみがわるいです。
There's something creepy about this house.
Common patterns
- 風邪気味
- a touch of a cold
- 遅れ気味
- tending to run late
- 気味が悪い
- creepy, eerie
Memory tip
As a suffix it voices to -ぎみ and means "slightly, a tendency towards", and what follows is nearly always unwelcome: 風邪気味, 太り気味, 疲れ気味. Kept as a standalone noun read きみ, it appears in 気味が悪い "creepy".
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