憎う
にくう · nikui
JLPT N2 i-adjective 連用形
憎う is the masu-stem of 憎い — hateful, detestable, abominable, vexing, provoking.
- amazing, fantastic, admirable, lovely, wonderful
How it’s built
憎い
憎う
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.
This spelling is the version with う (sound change, mostly in polite or older speech).
憎い is a i-adjective, so it follows that pattern.
Name that form
Three more forms of 憎い. Can you tell what each one is?
Every form of 憎い
| Negative (ない形) | 憎くないにくくない |
| Past (た形) | 憎かったにくかった |
| Past negative (なかった) | 憎くなかったにくくなかった |
| Te-form (て形) | 憎くてにくくて |
| Adverb (副詞形) | 憎くにくく |
| Before a noun (連体形) | 憎いにくい |
| Ba-conditional (条件形) | 憎ければにくければ |
| Tara-conditional (たら形) | 憎かったらにくかったら |
| Become ~ (~なる) | 憎くなるにくくなる |
| Too ~ (~すぎる) | 憎すぎるにくすぎる |
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Other forms and spellings
憎けれ憎きゃ憎けりゃ憎かろ憎かろう憎かろふ憎い憎く憎かっSave your words
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