Nihoner

乏とぼし

とぼし · toboshi

JLPT N1 i-adjective 語幹

is the stem of 乏い — meagre, meager, scarce, limited, destitute, hard up, lacking, scanty, poor.

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How it’s built

乏い 乏

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

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

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

Every form of

Negative 乏くないとぼしくない
Past 乏かったとぼしかった
Past negative 乏くなかったとぼしくなかった
Te-form 乏くてとぼしくて
Adverb 乏くとぼしく
Before a noun 乏いとぼしい
Ba-conditional 乏ければとぼしければ
Tara-conditional 乏かったらとぼしかったら
Become ~ 乏くなるとぼしくなる
Too ~ 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ゅう乏く乏かっ
stem of 乏い