乏
とぼし · toboshi
乏 is the stem of 乏い — meagre, meager, scarce, limited, destitute, hard up, lacking, scanty, poor.
How it’s built
Stem (語幹). 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.
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) | 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ゅう乏く乏かっSave your words
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