Hanamaruhanamaru

くろ

black (the color)

kuro

JLPT
N5
Frequency
#2,066

Meanings

  1. 1
    blacknadj-no
  2. 2
    black stonen
  3. 3
    guilt; guilty personn

JMdict 1287410

In a sentence

くろねこ黒猫black catすき好きlike

Do you like black cats?

How it works

(topic) marks the topic (黒猫くろねこ (black cat)) — “as for the black cat…”. Then comes 好きすき (like), which in Japanese works like an adjective for liking something rather than a verb. There’s no copula and no question word: the plain, casual feel comes from dropping です (is), and the rising tone (the (?)) alone turns it into “do you like…?”.

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