【One Point Lesson】 Adjectives

Hi everyone, welcome to our one point lesson!

Today we would like to introduce adjectives and their forms to express your feelings precisely.

You might have learned some adjectives at our school or other places, but I have personally found that many students are struggling to remember the forms; present, present negative, past and past negative form. Let’s review the grammar.

い形容詞 (i-adjectives)

i-adjective words always end with い(i). For example; たのしい(tanoshii), おもしろい(omoshiroi), or いそがしい(isogashii). When you make other forms of these, drop the last i and add くない(kunai) for present negative, かった(katta) for past, and くなかった(kunakatta) for past negative. Please have a look at the chart below. です(desu) is added to use in a conversation.

いい(ii) means “good” is only one exception among i-adjectives. It becomes; yokunai, yokatta, yokunakatta.

な形容詞 (na-adjectives)

For na-adjectives, add ではありません(dewa arimasen) for present negative, でした(deshita) for past, ではありませんでした(dewa arimasen deshita) for past negative.

na-adjectives are easier to remember their forms, but you might have noticed that sometimes it is difficult to see whether it is i-adjective or na-adjective, as there are some ending with い(i) but they are actually na-adjectives such as ゆうめい(yuumei) means “famous” and きらい(kirai) means “dislike”. Otherwise, there is no exceptions in na-adjective group.

I hope this information helped your Japanese study.

Have a nice weekend peeps!