かる
Meanings
Adjective (い)
1. light (i.e. not heavy); feeling light (i.e. offering little resistance, moving easily)
2. light (i.e. of foot); effortless; nimble; agile
3. non-serious; minor; unimportant; trivial
4. slight; small; gentle; soft; easy; lighthearted (e.g. joke)
5. easy; simple
6. indiscriminate
Pitch accent
るい
Top 18000
Used in vocabulary (13 in total)
having a loose tongue; being talkative; speaking without thinking; being unable to keep a secret
loose-tongued; talkative
casual; doing something without taking it too seriously
Examples (24 in total)
This chair is light.
The opposite of "heavy" is "light."
An airship is lighter than air.