6 Answered Questions for the topic i adjectives
correctness of い adjective + です?
Generally, in all Japanese language classes, the rule you're taught is that です does not follow い adjectives. Instead, い adjectives can act like stative verbs, and as such terminate a sentence by...
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In what way is the negative form of a verb an adjective?
I was reading the [wikipedia page on "predicate,"](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predicate_%28grammar%29) where it mentioned that in Japanese, the negative form of a verb is an adjective. I thought...
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04/01/19
When to use 欲しがる instead of 欲しい?
When does one use 欲しがる instead of 欲しい? For example, in phrases like:
> 先生は野菜を食べて欲し｛いです・がっています｝。
My incomplete understanding is that the がる form is more formal/polite, but it can only be used...
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03/18/19
Why can't だ be used after an I-adjective?
I have been constantly told that だ can not be placed after an I-adjective. Why is that?
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03/18/19
Contrasting っぽい、らしい、みたい?
For example, the following 3:
女っぽい (おんなっぽい)
女らしい (おんならしい)
女みたい (おんなみたい)
In what situations would you use っぽい over らしい？ Does っぽい have negative connotations? Are 女らしい and 女みたい interchangeable as...
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03/18/19
Why does Japanese have two kinds of adjectives? (-i adjectives and -na adjectives)?
Japanese has two kinds of adjectives known by several terms but the ones I know are `i-adjectives` and `na-adjectives` - why?
I recall that Japanese adjectives are much more like verbs than in...
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