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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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Structure of -しい adjectives
If you are asking the question from a purely orthographic aspect, the answer is written on the government's website.
Below are excerpts from the public notice issued in 1973 named 送り仮名の付け方. (Underlin …
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Pronunciation rule
For ～さ, traditionally mostly:
accentless i-adjectives: accentless (あかい{LHH} → あかさ{LHH})
accented i-adjectives:
3 or less morae: accent on 1st mora (ない{HL} → なさ{HL}, さむい{LHL} → さむさ {HLL})
4 or more m …
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ない vs 無い: Negative ある vs adjective?
In the Standard Japanese vocabulary, the adjective ない replaces plain negative of ある (whose regular form should have been *あらない). It's the same phenomenon with the past form of "go" being "went" in Eng …
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Past tense of i-adjective + past tense of verb
It's not prohibited, but it never ever means what past tense in English does. Tense in Japanese subordinate clause is (basically) relative to main clause, so if you bought a book and the book was heav …
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~くて on a verb? How do you indicate desire?
たくて is the te-form of たい "want to". The form たくて only has one function, to make a subordinate clause of the verb before ("wanting to V", "want to V, so/and"), that connects to a main verb (predicate), …
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かたくな etymology and relation to 固い
As already pointed out in a comment, the last な of かたくな is not conjugation but a part of the word. You have to put another な to make it attributive.
かたくなな態度
We write out the last syllable as oku …
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