表層形
水臭う
ミズクソー
形容詞
水臭う (ミズクソー)
Mizukusou · みずくそー — stand-offish, distant, not frank, reserved; watery (alcohol, coffee, etc.)
Other ways to say “stand-offish” in Japanese →
水臭う in rōmaji: mizukusou, also spelled mizukuso.
形容詞
一般
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📝 水臭い 🔤 形容詞 📐 連用形-ウ音便
Updated: 2026年8月25日
📖 Grammar Information
| 表層形 (Surface) |
水臭う
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|---|---|
| 見出し語 (Lemma) |
水臭い
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| 読み (Reading) |
ミズクソー
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| 品詞 (POS) |
形容詞・一般・*・*
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| 活用型 (Conj. Type) |
形容詞
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| 活用形 (Conj. Form) |
連用形-ウ音便
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| 表記 (Orthography) |
水臭う
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| 読み・基本形 |
ミズクサイ
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| 表記・基本形 |
水臭い
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| 見出し語の読み |
ミズクサイ
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💡 English Meaning
水臭う means “stand-offish, distant, not frank, reserved; watery (alcohol, coffee, etc.)” — full definition & examples →
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ミズクソー
Lemma: 水臭い
形容詞一般**
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⚡ 形容詞 (I-adjective) Inflections
| 丁寧形 (Polite) |
水臭いです
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| 否定形 (Negative) |
水臭くない
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| 過去形 (Past) |
水臭かった
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| て形 (Te-form) |
水臭くて
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| 副詞形 (Adverbial) |
水臭く
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| 仮定形 (Conditional) |
水臭ければ
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Did you know · 形容詞
形容詞 (i-adjectives) end in い and conjugate directly. They can act as predicates or modify nouns directly without a particle.
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What is the difference between surface form and lemma? ▼
The surface form (水臭う) is the exact text as it appeared in the corpus — it may be conjugated or inflected. The lemma (水臭い) is the dictionary base form. For example, 食べた (surface) has the lemma 食べる.
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