い-adjectives

い-adjectives In Japanese there are two types of adjectives (い-adjectives and な-adjectives). い adjectives end in ai, ii, ui or oi. small big hot interesting ちいさい おおきい あつい おもしろい い-adjectives conjugate in a different way than な-adjectives and nouns. Affirmative form, present ちいさいです。 It is small. おおきいです。It is big. あついです。 It is hot. おもしろいです。 It is interesting. These are used in a polite way because です which indicates polite speech is placed after the adjectives. Concerning the affirmative form in present, い-adjectives, な-adjectives and nouns conjugate in the same way. Negative form, present The final い is replaced with く and ありません is added to make the present tense in the negative form. ちいさい → ちいさくありません (The final い […]