Nihoner

よさ

yosa

JLPT N1 i-adjective 語幹

is the stem of よい — good, excellent, fine, nice, pleasant, agreeable.

  • sufficient, enough, ready, prepared
  • profitable (deal, business offer, etc.), beneficial
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How it’s built

よい よさ

Stem (). The part that does not change. Adjectives and some words appear as a bare stem in compounds or exclamations.

よい is a i-adjective, so it follows that pattern.

Name that form

Three more forms of . Can you tell what each one is?

Every form of

Negative よくない
Past よかった
Past negative よくなかった
Te-form よくて
Adverb よく
Before a noun よい
Ba-conditional よければ
Tara-conditional よかったら
Become ~ よくなる
Too ~ よすぎる

Drill every form in the Conjugation Dojo →

Other forms and spellings

よけれよきゃよけりゃよからうよかろよかろうよかろふヨカよっよかよくよぐよかっヨカッよいヨイ
stem of よい