karee wa sukoshi karai keredo, oishii.

The curry is a little spicy, but delicious.

Breakdown of karee wa sukoshi karai keredo, oishii.

• は: topic particle
• おいしい: delicious
• 少すこし: a little
• けれど: but

Questions & Answers about karee wa sukoshi karai keredo, oishii.

Why is は used after カレー?

は marks カレー as the topic of the sentence.

So カレーは means something like:

• As for the curry,
• Speaking of the curry,

The sentence is then making comments about that topic: it is a little spicy, but delicious.

This is different from が, which often marks the grammatical subject more directly. In a simple sentence like this, は sounds very natural because the speaker is talking about curry as the thing under discussion.

What does 少し mean here?

少し means a little or slightly.

So 少し辛い means:

• a little spicy
• slightly spicy

It softens the adjective 辛い. Without 少し, 辛い would simply mean spicy.

How do you read 少し and 辛い?

The readings are:

• 少し → すこし
• 辛い → からい

So the sentence is read:

カレーは すこし からい けれど、おいしい。