"きたないです。"

Translation: It is dirty.

[cherubl]

汚い • きたない • dirty
汚くない •きたなくない • not dirty

...just in case the ない confused other people like it did me.

[LM0Uxa]

Thanks. So the ない in the beginning doesnt have any negatory meaning?

[Jesse319162]

It doesn't- it's the same as with adjectives like abunai… it's just happenstance.

[Boringjorn]

I wonder if there are any words in English that are confusing in this specific way coming from Japanese. Destroyed : Undestroyed | Unified : Deunified?

[N1chope]

Fun fact: when I was I child I used to use "telligent" as an antonym of "intelligent" (but in Spanish) :D

[Marknld]

本当にありがとうございます！

[DarrellRey2]

Shout outs to Maika of Blend-S for making me get this right first try

[headchop]

Is 北ないです (it is not north) not possible here?

[79867462078]

・ない is generally used as a negation of です

・ない can be used to negate an adjective:

おいしい - delicious
おいしくない - not delicious

If you talk about 北 you need to use topic or subject particle:

北はない / 北がない - it is not north

[xorgy]

FILTHY

[Onithyr]

The conjugation would make so much more sense if they translated it as "unclean"

[Jesse319162]

“きた” does not mean clean. “きたない” is its own is a word that means dirty. Its negative form is “きたなくない”. It’s the same with adjectives like “あぶない”- it doesn’t mean not safe, it just means dangerous. Think of English words like “destroy” or “understand”- they aren’t the opposite of “stroy” or “derstand”, but rather their own words.

[deactivated user]

Love the words "stroy" and "derstand" though, and I am going to incorporate them into my vocabulary just to annoy people...

[RobertMlle19]

So the opposite of de-stroy would be con-stroy which kind of sounds like construct

[AI37]

Can this be used to describe people?

[Jesse319162]

Absolutely, although it may not be a very nice thing to say.