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N5

i-Adjectives

Use i-adjectives to describe people, places, things, and experiences in present-tense sentences.

Recognize common i-adjectives and their dictionary forms.Use i-adjectives before nouns and at the end of sentences.Read and produce simple descriptions with natural adjective placement.
Guided study

What i-Adjectives Do

Most i-adjectives end in い in their plain form. They can come directly before a noun or end a sentence with です in polite speech.

この ほんは おもしろいです。

This book is interesting.

あたらしい かばんです。

It is a new bag.

きょうは さむいです。

It is cold today.

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