Word Meaning 形容詞

けいようし keiyoushi

形容詞 is read as けいようし (keiyoushi) and means adjective.

Meaning

English

  1. adjective
  2. i-adjective (in Japanese)

Reading

Kana

けいようし

Romaji

keiyoushi

Stroke Sequence

3 Characters • 29 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N2 Jōyō Grade 6 Kanken 5級 Rank 7346 Priority B

Related Vocabulary

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形容動詞

けいようどうし

adjectival noun (in Japanese)

形容詞的

けいようしてき

adjectival

名詞的形容詞

めいしてきけいようし

substantive adjective

関係形容詞

かんけいけいようし

relative adjective

疑問形容詞

ぎもんけいようし

interrogative adjective

指示形容詞

しじけいようし

demonstrative adjective

限定形容詞

げんていけいようし

attributive adjective

述語形容詞

じゅつごけいようし

predicate adjective

補助形容詞

ほじょけいようし

subsidiary adjective (in Japanese)

複合形容詞

ふくごうけいようし

compound adjective

固有形容詞

こゆうけいようし

proper adjective

い形容詞

いけいようし

i-adjective

Example Sentences

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These adjectives are all positive.

"Small" and "little" are adjectives.

The next sentence has adjectives and adverbs.

Things that modify nouns (adjective, or adjectival equivalent).

Things that modify nouns are adjectives or equivalent to adjectives.

'-osity' is an abstract noun word ending created from the ending of an '-ous' adjective.

Things that modify nouns are prototypically adjectives or equivalent to adjectives.

Adjectives in English are often used as adverbs with no change in form.

Russian adjectives agree in gender, number, and case with the nouns or pronouns to which they refer.

In Italian, unlike English, adjective placement can vary.