表層形
か細
カボソ
形容詞
か細 (カボソ)
Kaboso · かぼそ — thin, skinny; delicate, fragile, feeble
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か細 in rōmaji: kaboso.
形容詞
一般
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📝 か細い 🔤 形容詞 📐 語幹-一般
Updated: 2026年9月9日
📖 Grammar Information
| 表層形 (Surface) |
か細
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|---|---|
| 見出し語 (Lemma) |
か細い
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| 読み (Reading) |
カボソ
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| 品詞 (POS) |
形容詞・一般・*・*
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| 活用型 (Conj. Type) |
形容詞
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| 活用形 (Conj. Form) |
語幹-一般
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| 表記 (Orthography) |
か細
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| 読み・基本形 |
カボソイ
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| 表記・基本形 |
か細い
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| 見出し語の読み |
カボソイ
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How it's used
Used in formal or literary contexts to describe a thin, delicate, or feeble person or thing, often with a sense of fragility.
か細い声で話した。
kabosoi koe de hanashita.
He spoke in a thin, weak voice.
彼女はか細い体をしていた。
Kanojo wa kabosoi karada o shite ita.
She had a frail, delicate body.
💡 English Meaning
か細 means “thin, skinny; delicate, fragile, feeble” — full definition & examples →
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Reading & Info
カボソ
Lemma: か細い
形容詞一般**
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⚡ 形容詞 (I-adjective) Inflections
| 丁寧形 (Polite) |
か細いです
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| 否定形 (Negative) |
か細くない
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| 過去形 (Past) |
か細かった
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| て形 (Te-form) |
か細くて
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| 副詞形 (Adverbial) |
か細く
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| 仮定形 (Conditional) |
か細ければ
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Did you know · 形容詞
形容詞 (i-adjectives) end in い and conjugate directly. They can act as predicates or modify nouns directly without a particle.
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The surface form (か細) is the exact text as it appeared in the corpus — it may be conjugated or inflected. The lemma (か細い) is the dictionary base form. For example, 食べた (surface) has the lemma 食べる.
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