乏く
とぼしく · toboshiku
JLPT N1 i-adjective 連用形
乏く is the masu-stem of 乏い — meagre, meager, scarce, limited, destitute, hard up, lacking, scanty, poor.
How it’s built
乏い
乏く
Masu-stem (連用形). The base for ます, たい and ながら, and the way to link two actions: 書き → 書きます.
乏い is a i-adjective, so it follows that pattern.
Name that form
Three more forms of 乏い. Can you tell what each one is?
Every form of 乏い
| Negative (ない形) | 乏くないとぼしくない |
| Past (た形) | 乏かったとぼしかった |
| Past negative (なかった) | 乏くなかったとぼしくなかった |
| Te-form (て形) | 乏くてとぼしくて |
| Adverb (副詞形) ← this one | 乏くとぼしく |
| Before a noun (連体形) | 乏いとぼしい |
| Ba-conditional (条件形) | 乏ければとぼしければ |
| Tara-conditional (たら形) | 乏かったらとぼしかったら |
| Become ~ (~なる) | 乏くなるとぼしくなる |
| Too ~ (~すぎる) | 乏すぎるとぼしすぎる |
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Other forms and spellings
乏けれ乏きゃ乏けりゃ乏かろ乏かろう乏かろふ乏い乏乏ゅう乏かっSave your words
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