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形容詞. A class of words that behaves mostly like verbs (but uses different grammatical endings) and is used to describe properties of nouns.

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Are there inflections/endings that can be applied to verbs but not i-adjectives? (or vice ve...

I want to add a few extra notes to Amanda's answer: There are two different vector we should consider when comparing the coverage of i-adjective conjugation to the verb conjugation (which is obviousl …
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Why does Japanese have two kinds of adjectives? (-i adjectives and -na adjectives)

The reason for the western language learners' confusion when facing the so-called "two types of Japanese adjectives" is that they try to find similar constructs to their own native language in Japanes …
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