拙く
つたなく · tsutanaku
i-adjective 連用形
拙く is the masu-stem of 拙い — poor-quality, shoddy, crude.
- unskillful, inexpert, maladroit, inept, foolish, clumsy
- unlucky
How it’s built
拙い
拙く
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.
拙い is a i-adjective, so it follows that pattern.
Name that form
Three more forms of 拙い. Can you tell what each one is?
Every form of 拙い
| Negative (ない形) | 拙くないつたなくない |
| Past (た形) | 拙かったつたなかった |
| Past negative (なかった) | 拙くなかったつたなくなかった |
| Te-form (て形) | 拙くてつたなくて |
| Adverb (副詞形) ← this one | 拙くつたなく |
| Before a noun (連体形) | 拙いつたない |
| Ba-conditional (条件形) | 拙ければつたなければ |
| Tara-conditional (たら形) | 拙かったらつたなかったら |
| Become ~ (~なる) | 拙くなるつたなくなる |
| Too ~ (~すぎる) | 拙すぎるつたなすぎる |
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Other forms and spellings
拙けれ拙きゃ拙けりゃ拙かろ拙かろう拙かろふ拙い拙え拙拙う拙かっSave your words
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