Take care to make all the conjugations from 「 よい」 not 「 いい」.When we conjugate i-adjectives, we take away the “i” endings and replace them with the endings in the chart below. Since it uses the same 「 いい」, you need to use the same conjugations. This is shown in the next table.Īnother adjective that acts like this is 「 かっこいい」 because it is an abbreviated version of two words merged together: 「 格好」 and 「 いい」. Unfortunately, all the conjugations are still derived from 「 よい」 and not 「 いい」. When it is written in Kanji, it is usually read as 「 よい」 so 「 いい」 is almost always Hiragana. However, with time, it soon became 「 いい」. The word for “good” was originally 「よい( 良い)」. This is a classic case of how learning Japanese is harder for beginners because the most common and useful words also have the most exceptions. There is one i-adjective meaning “good” that acts slightly differently from all other i-adjectives. In this example, the descriptive clause 「 値段が 高い」 is directly modifying 「 レストラン」. Exampleĭon’t like high price restaurants very much. The only difference is that we don’t need 「な」 to directly modify the noun. Note that you can make the same type of descriptive noun clause as we have done with na-adjectives. Past-tense: First remove the trailing 「い」 from the i-adjective or negative i-adjective and then attach 「かった」.Negative: First remove the trailing 「い」 from the i-adjective and then attach 「くない」.Notice that the rule for conjugating to negative past tense is the same as the rule for the past tense. Now that we got that matter cleared up, below are the rules for conjugating i-adjectives. Remember how the negative state-of-being for nouns also ended in 「い」 (じゃな い)? Well, just like the negative state-of-being for nouns, you can never attach the declarative 「だ」 to i-adjectives. Unlike na-adjectives, you do not need to add 「な」 to directly modify a noun with an i-adjective. This has to do with the fact that 「 嫌い」 is actually derived from the verb 「 嫌う」. In fact, 「 嫌い」 is one of the rare na-adjectives that ends in 「い」 without a Kanji. That’s because the whole point of the 「い」 in i-adjectives is to allow conjugation without changing the Kanji. Since the 「い」 part of 「麗」 is part of a Kanji character, you know that it can’t be an i-adjective. For instance, 「 きれい」 written in Kanji looks like 「 綺麗」 or 「 奇麗」. Almost all other na-adjectives that end in 「い」 are usually written in Kanji and so you can easily tell that it’s not an i-adjective. Two of the most common include: 「 きれい」 and 「 嫌い」. So how can you tell the difference? There are actually very few na-adjectives that end with 「い」 that is usually not written in Kanji. However, you may have noticed that some na-adjectives also end in 「い」 such as 「 きれい(な)」. あまり/あんまり – not very (when used with negative)Īll i-adjectives always end in the Hiragana character: 「い」.高い 【たか・い】 (i-adj) – high tall expensive.Person who likes fish also likes vegetables. For instance, we can make the whole clause a topic like the following example. We can even treat the whole descriptive noun clause as we would a single noun. You can see why this type of sentence is useful because 「 人は 魚が 好きだ」 would mean “People like fish”, which isn’t always the case. is modifying “person” to talk about people that like or dislike fish. (Remember to attach 「な」 for positive non-past tense.) Examples You can also use the last three conjugations to directly modify the noun. The sentence is about the topic “Bob” and “fish” identifies specifically what Bob likes. Also, you can see a good example of the topic and identifier particle working in harmony. If it bothers you that “like” is an adjective and not a verb in Japanese, you can think of 「 好き」 as meaning “desirable”. ExamplesĪs shown by the following examples, the conjugation rules for na-adjectives are the same as nouns. You can also use adjectives with particles just like we did in the last lesson with nouns. One main difference is that a na-adjective can directly modify a noun following it by sticking 「な」 between the adjective and noun. All the conjugation rules for both nouns and na-adjectives are the same. The na-adjective is very simple to learn because it acts essentially like a noun. All adjectives fall under two categories: na-adjectives and i-adjectives. It can also be connected in the same way we did with nouns using particles. An adjective can directly modify a noun that immediately follows it. Now that we can connect two nouns together in various ways using particles, we want to describe our nouns with adjectives.
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