安い
Appearance
Japanese
[edit]| Kanji in this term |
|---|
| 安 |
| やす Grade: 3 |
| kun'yomi |
| Alternative spelling |
|---|
| 廉い |
Etymology
[edit]From classical 安し (yasushi), from Old Japanese. First appears in the Kojiki of 712 CE as 夜須(久) (yasu(ku)).[1][2] In turn from Proto-Japonic *yasu. Cognate with 休む (yasumu, “to rest”).[2][3]
Pronunciation
[edit]- Tokyo pitch accent of inflected forms of 安い
| Plain | 安い | やすい | [yàsúꜜì] |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conjunctive | 安くて | やすくて やすくて |
[yàsúꜜkùtè] [yáꜜsùkùtè] |
| Continuative | 安く | やすく やすく |
[yàsúꜜkù] [yáꜜsùkù] |
| Negative | 安くない | やすくない やすくない |
[yàsúꜜkù nàì] [yáꜜsùkù nàì] |
| Past | 安かった | やすかった やすかった |
[yàsúꜜkàttà] [yáꜜsùkàttà] |
| Negative past | 安くなかった | やすくなかった やすくなかった |
[yàsúꜜkù nàkàttà] [yáꜜsùkù nàkàttà] |
| Conditional | 安ければ | やすければ やすければ |
[yàsúꜜkèrèbà] [yáꜜsùkèrèbà] |
| Terminal | 安い | やすい | [yàsúꜜì] |
| Formal | 安いです | やすいです | [yàsúꜜì dèsù] |
Adjective
[edit]安い • (yasui) -i (adverbial 安く (yasuku))
Inflection
[edit]Inflection of 安い
| Stem forms | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Imperfective (未然形) | 安かろ | やすかろ | yasukaro |
| Continuative (連用形) | 安く | やすく | yasuku |
| Terminal (終止形) | 安い | やすい | yasui |
| Attributive (連体形) | 安い | やすい | yasui |
| Hypothetical (仮定形) | 安けれ | やすけれ | yasukere |
| Imperative (命令形) | 安かれ | やすかれ | yasukare |
| Key constructions | |||
| Informal negative | 安くない | やすくない | yasuku nai |
| Informal past | 安かった | やすかった | yasukatta |
| Informal negative past | 安くなかった | やすくなかった | yasuku nakatta |
| Formal | 安いです | やすいです | yasui desu |
| Formal negative | 安くないです | やすくないです | yasuku nai desu |
| Formal past | 安かったです | やすかったです | yasukatta desu |
| Formal negative past | 安くなかったです | やすくなかったです | yasuku nakatta desu |
| Conjunctive | 安くて | やすくて | yasukute |
| Conditional | 安ければ | やすければ | yasukereba |
| Provisional | 安かったら | やすかったら | yasukattara |
| Volitional | 安かろう | やすかろう | yasukarō |
| Adverbial | 安く | やすく | yasuku |
| Degree | 安さ | やすさ | yasusa |
Synonyms
[edit]Antonyms
[edit]- (antonym(s) of “expensive”): 高い (takai)
See also
[edit]- 安らか (yasuraka, “secure”)
- 安価 (anka, “inexpensiveness”)
References
[edit]- ^ The template Template:R:Jidai-betsu Kokugo Daijiten does not use the parameter(s):
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Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.Omodaka, Hisataka (1967), 時代別国語大辞典 上代編 [The dictionary of historical Japanese: Old Japanese] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN - ↑ 2.0 2.1 “やす・い 【安・易】
”, in 日本国語大辞典 [Nihon Kokugo Daijiten][1] (in Japanese), 2nd edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2000-2002, released online 2007, →ISBN, concise edition entry available here
- ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988), 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
- “安い”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia][2] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025
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