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い-Adjective declension apparent inconsistency when turning into a noun
Consider these adjectives:
赤い
近い
The い-declension works for sentence ending as well as directly modifying a noun:
Now if I want to express the adjective as a noun, for example I'm talking about ...
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The different ways of producing nouns
What are the different ways to produce nouns from other parts of speech and how are they different?
For example, 高い has these nouns produced from it:
高さ
高み
For 近い :
近く
Also nouns can be ...
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Is it true that all verbs have a corresponding noun form?
Is it true that all verbs have a corresponding noun form (which is formed by making the -masu form and removing the -masu)?
Like 遊び and 遊びます
飲み and 飲みます
生き and 生きます
死に and 死にます
