{"id":171,"date":"2010-01-13T20:32:40","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T00:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/?p=171"},"modified":"2010-01-13T20:32:40","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T00:32:40","slug":"%e3%81%84-adjectives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/%e3%81%84-adjectives\/","title":{"rendered":"\u3044 Adjectives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Generally speaking, an<strong> \u3044<\/strong> adjective is an adjective that ends in<strong> \u3044<\/strong>. (There are exceptions to this rule, but we&#8217;ll talk about that some other time.) Examples include:<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u306f\u3084\u3044<\/strong>\u00a0(fast)<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u304a\u305d\u3044<\/strong>\u00a0(slow)<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u3075\u308b\u3044<\/strong>\u00a0(old for things)<\/p>\n<p>To form the present affirmative polite of <strong>\u3044 <\/strong>adjectives, add <strong>\u3067\u3059<\/strong> to the adjective. Therefore:<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u305f\u304b\u3044<\/strong>\u00a0(tall, expensive) will be <strong>\u305f\u304b\u3044\u3067\u3059 <\/strong>(It&#8217;s expensive)<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u3084\u3059\u3044<\/strong> (cheap) will be <strong>\u3084\u3059\u3044\u3067\u3059 <\/strong>(It&#8217;s cheap)<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u3044\u305d\u304c\u3057\u3044 <\/strong>(busy) will be <strong>\u3044\u305d\u304c\u3057\u3044\u3067\u3059 <\/strong>(I&#8217;m\/He\/She\/We\/They are busy)<\/p>\n<p>To form the negative present polite of an <strong>\u3044<\/strong> adjective, drop the <strong>\u3044<\/strong> and add <strong>\u304f\u3042\u308a\u307e\u305b\u3093<\/strong> to the adjective.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u3055\u3080\u3044<\/strong> (cold, used for weather) will be <strong>\u3055\u3080\u304f\u3042\u308a\u307e\u305b\u3093<\/strong> (It&#8217;s not cold)<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u3042\u305f\u3089\u3057\u3044<\/strong> (new) will be<strong> \u3042\u305f\u3089\u3057\u304f\u3042\u308a\u307e\u305b\u3093<\/strong> (It&#8217;s not new)<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u3061\u3044\u3055\u3044<\/strong> (small) will be <strong>\u3061\u3044\u3055\u304f\u3042\u308a\u307e\u305b\u3093 <\/strong>(It&#8217;s not small)<\/p>\n<p>To form the polite past affirmative, drop the<strong> \u3044<\/strong> ending and add <strong>\u304b\u3063\u305f\u3067\u3059<\/strong> to the adjective<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u3042\u3064\u3044<\/strong> (hot) will be <strong>\u3042\u3064\u304b\u3063\u305f\u3067\u3059<\/strong> (was hot)<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u304a\u3082\u3057\u308d\u3044 <\/strong>(interesting) will be <strong>\u304a\u3082\u3057\u308d\u304b\u3063\u305f\u3067\u3059<\/strong> (was interesting)<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u304a\u304a\u304d\u3044<\/strong> (big) will be <strong>\u304a\u304a\u304d\u304b\u3063\u305f\u3067\u3059<\/strong> (was big)<\/p>\n<p>To form the past negative polite, drop the <strong>\u3044<\/strong> and add<strong> \u304f\u3042\u308a\u307e\u305b\u3093\u3067\u3057\u305f<\/strong> to the adjective<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u305f\u306e\u3057\u3044<\/strong> (fun) will be <strong>\u305f\u306e\u3057\u304f\u3042\u308a\u307e\u305b\u3093\u3067\u3057\u305f<\/strong> (was not fun)<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u3084\u3055\u3057<\/strong> (easy problem, kind person) will be <strong>\u3084\u3055\u3057\u304f\u3042\u308a\u307e\u305b\u3093\u3067\u3057\u305f<\/strong> (was not easy, was not kind)<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u3080\u305a\u304b\u3057\u3044<\/strong> (difficult) will be <strong>\u3080\u305a\u304b\u3057\u304f\u3042\u308a\u307e\u305b\u3093\u3067\u3057\u305f <\/strong>(was difficult)<\/p>\n<p>\ufffd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Generally speaking, an \u3044 adjective is an adjective that ends in \u3044. (There are exceptions to this rule, but we&#8217;ll talk about that some other time.) Examples include: \u306f\u3084\u3044\u00a0(fast) \u304a\u305d\u3044\u00a0(slow) \u3075\u308b\u3044\u00a0(old for things) To form the present affirmative polite of \u3044 adjectives, add \u3067\u3059 to the adjective. Therefore: \u305f\u304b\u3044\u00a0(tall, expensive) will be \u305f\u304b\u3044\u3067\u3059 (It&#8217;s expensive)&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/%e3%81%84-adjectives\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2860],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-grammar","tag--adjectives"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6219,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/6219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}