✨🌸Different Shades of Cool🌸✨
Here’s a bunch of kakkoii phrases
Watashi no atarashii kareshi, kakkoii desho?
“My new boyfriend is so cool, don’t you think so?” (colloquial)
おお！新しいボルダリングの靴買ったんだ。かっこいいじゃん！
Oo! atarashii borudaringu no kutsu kattanda, kakkoii jan!
“Hey! I can see you’ve bought a new pair of bouldering shoes. They’re pretty cool!” (colloquial)
皆のかっこいいところ、ちゃんとビデオに撮っておくからね。
Minna no kakkoii tokoro, chanto bideo ni totteoku kara ne.
“Trust me guys, I’ll make sure I get your coolest moments on camera!” (colloquial)
Chotto kuuru na dezain ga ii kana?
“I’d probably prefer a design that’s somewhat cool”. (colloquial)
Two elegant ways of saying cool in Japanese: suteki & subarashii
素敵 suteki is used to express appreciation for someone possessing a beauty of a noble, interior kind, or just good looks, that instills in you a sense of admiration. 素敵 suteki is also used to appreciate something (as opposed to someone) characterized by aesthetic elegance, like a lovely room or a beautiful dress.
素晴らしい subarashii denotes a sense of surprise or excitement for more abstract, ingenious things, like a favorable situation, the quality of a job completed, an idea, a new theory, a technology, etc. It can be used to describe people, but the focus would be on their skills and achievements, rather than their inner/exterior beauty or gallantry.
use 素敵 suteki if you have to rely on your heart or your aesthetic sense in order to appreciate someone or something, and
use 素晴らしい subarashii if you have to rely on your intellect.
Some suteki and subarashii phrases
Yoshida sensei no enzetsu wa hontou ni subarashikatta desu.
“Mr Yoshida’s speach was really magnificent”. (polite)
Kore wa subarashii kikai dato omoimasu!
“I think this is an excellent opportunity!” (polite)
Kare wa subarashii handanryoku no mochinushi desu.
“He possesses very good judgment”. (polite)
Konna ni suteki na doresu moracchatta.
“This dress I received… it’s so beautiful”. (colloquial)
Suteki na kareshi ga ite shiawase dane.
“You have such a nice boyfriend, you must be so happy”. (colloquial)
Cool as in ‘great, awesome’
When you want to express surprise, incredulity, astonishment or admiration by using an expression that means ‘cool’ in Japanese, you can use one of the following ways.
You can still resort to 素敵 suteki and 素晴らしい subarashii.
“How beautiful!” (colloquial, feminine)
“It’s so wonderful!” (colloquial, feminine)
“Excellent!”, “Well done!”, “Cool!” (colloquial, but can be used in a situation that requires polite register, since it’s practically an exclamation)
なんと素晴らしい。 Nanto subarashii.
“Wow…”, “Impressive”. (polite)
Two more words, often interchangeable, are すごい sugoi and やばい yabai.
すごい sugoi means ‘incredible, impossible, no way, so cool’. Often it’s written in kanji: 凄い sugoi. It is also used to express negative feelings about something, in which case it means ‘terrible, dreadful, uncanny’.
やばい yabai is ‘cooler’ in a way, less standard and less formal than すごい sugoi. Younger people often use this word. It has a strong positive meaning, or a strong negative meaning. Positive: ‘terrific, amazing, cool’. Often used when the food is really good. Negative: ‘dangerous, risky, awful, terrible’
*The Tokyo accent will often change the ending to an “e” sound so don’t worry about variation!*
すごい sugoi (least intense, standard)
すっげえ suggee (most intense, slang)
やばい yabai (least intense, colloquial)
やっべえ yabbee (most intense, slang, can be slightly vulgar if not used properly)
The final little つ tsu (っ) are mute. They are there to indicate that the word has been abruptly truncated, and it’s a little bit like an exclamation mark. In fact, you don’t even need it. すごっ sugo can be written as すご sugo, etc.
Meaning and use of ‘ii nee’
One final way to express cool in Japanese, as in ‘awesome’, is the expression いいねえ ii nee, and its infinite variations. Okay maybe not infinite, but definitely dozens.
いい ii is our old friend, and we know it means ‘good’.
ねえ nee, or even ね ne, is one of those words that don’t exist in English. When you use it at the end of a sentence, you are pretty much certain that your interlocutor (the person you are talking to) agrees with what you just said.
By saying ねえ nee, you initiate the process of openly sharing this feeling of complicity with your interlocutor, so that you both can have a moment of spiritual assonance during which your hearts and minds are harmoniously one.
Kono omisoshiru oishii nee!
“This miso soup is so nice, is it not!?  <3” (colloquial, friendly)
Konna hon yomitakunai yo ne!
“We don’t wanna read such a book, do we!” (colloquial, friendly)
“Good for you!”, “You are lucky!” (colloquial)
“That’s cool…”, “You are so lucky, I’m a little jealous”. (colloquial)
“That sounds great”, “Very good”. (polite)
あら、いいじゃない。 Ara, ii janai.
“Oh, good for you!”, “Lucky you!”. (colloquial, feminine)
“Ain’t it cool?”, “I think it’s fine”, “Who cares really?”. (slang)
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