臭い
Japanese
Kanji in this term |
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臭 |
臭 Grade: S |
Alternative spelling |
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臭い (kyūjitai) |
Pronunciation
- Tokyo pitch accent of inflected forms of "臭い"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary | |||
Stem forms | |||
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Continuative (連用形) | 臭く | くさく くさく |
[kúꜜsàkù] [kùsáꜜkù] |
Terminal (終止形) | 臭い | くさい | [kùsáꜜì] |
Attributive (連体形) | 臭い | くさい | [kùsáꜜì] |
Key constructions | |||
Informal negative | 臭くない | くさくない くさくない |
[kúꜜsàkùnàì] [kùsáꜜkùnàì] |
Informal past | 臭かった | くさかった くさかった |
[kúꜜsàkàttà] [kùsáꜜkàttà] |
Informal negative past | 臭くなかった | くさくなかった くさくなかった |
[kúꜜsàkùnàkàttà] [kùsáꜜkùnàkàttà] |
Formal | 臭いです | くさいです | [kùsáꜜìdèsù] |
Conjunctive | 臭くて | くさくて くさくて |
[kúꜜsàkùtè] [kùsáꜜkùtè] |
Conditional | 臭ければ | くさければ くさければ |
[kúꜜsàkèrèbà] [kùsáꜜkèrèbà] |
Adjective
臭い • (kusai) -i (adverbial 臭く (kusaku))
- stinking, smelly, pungent; giving off a bad smell
- suspicious, fishy; arousing suspicion
Synonyms
See also
Noun
Usage notes
- More often written as 匂い.
Suffix
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- smells like; reeks of
- (negatively) very much like; conceptually similar to
- ジジ臭い
- jiji-kusai
- like an old man
- ジジ臭い
- (with a quasi-adjective stem) an intensifier
- 面倒臭い
- mendō-kusai
- a hassle
- 面倒臭い
Usage notes
Forms an adjective.
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- ja:Smell