汚う
きちゃのう · kichanou
JLPT N5 i-adjective 連用形
汚う is the masu-stem of 汚い — dirty, filthy, foul, unclean.
- disordered, messy, untidy, poor (e.g. handwriting)
- indecent (language, etc.), dirty, vulgar, coarse
How it’s built
汚い
汚う
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).
汚い is a i-adjective, so it follows that pattern.
Name that form
Three more forms of 汚い. Can you tell what each one is?
Every form of 汚い
| Negative (ない形) | 汚くないきたなくない |
| Past (た形) | 汚かったきたなかった |
| Past negative (なかった) | 汚くなかったきたなくなかった |
| Te-form (て形) | 汚くてきたなくて |
| Adverb (副詞形) | 汚くきたなく |
| Before a noun (連体形) | 汚いきたない |
| Ba-conditional (条件形) | 汚ければきたなければ |
| Tara-conditional (たら形) | 汚かったらきたなかったら |
| Become ~ (~なる) | 汚くなるきたなくなる |
| Too ~ (~すぎる) | 汚すぎるきたなすぎる |
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Other forms and spellings
汚けれ汚きゃ汚けりゃ汚かろ汚かろう汚かろふ汚い汚え汚汚く汚かっSave your words
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