表層形
カビ臭う
カビクソー
形容詞
カビ臭う (カビクソー)
Kabikusou · かびくそー — smelling of mold, musty, putrid; old-fashioned, stale, hackneyed, worn-out
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カビ臭う in rōmaji: kabikusou, also spelled kabikuso.
形容詞
一般
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📝 黴臭い 🔤 形容詞 📐 連用形-ウ音便
Updated: 2026年8月13日
📖 Grammar Information
| 表層形 (Surface) |
カビ臭う
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|---|---|
| 見出し語 (Lemma) |
黴臭い
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| 読み (Reading) |
カビクソー
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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) |
連用形-ウ音便
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| 表記 (Orthography) |
カビ臭う
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| 読み・基本形 |
カビクサイ
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| 表記・基本形 |
カビ臭い
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| 見出し語の読み |
カビクサイ
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💡 English Meaning
カビ臭う means “smelling of mold, musty, putrid; old-fashioned, stale, hackneyed, worn-out” — full definition & examples →
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Reading & Info
カビクソー
Lemma: 黴臭い
形容詞一般**
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⚡ 形容詞 (I-adjective) Inflections
| 丁寧形 (Polite) |
黴臭いです
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| 否定形 (Negative) |
黴臭くない
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| 過去形 (Past) |
黴臭かった
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| て形 (Te-form) |
黴臭くて
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| 副詞形 (Adverbial) |
黴臭く
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| 仮定形 (Conditional) |
黴臭ければ
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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 (カビ臭う) is the exact text as it appeared in the corpus — it may be conjugated or inflected. The lemma (黴臭い) is the dictionary base form. For example, 食べた (surface) has the lemma 食べる.
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