表層形
細長う
ホソナゴー
形容詞
細長う (ホソナゴー)
Hosonagou · ほそなごー — long and narrow
Other ways to say “long and narrow” in Japanese →
細長う in rōmaji: hosonagou, also spelled hosonago.
形容詞
一般
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📝 細長い 🔤 形容詞 📐 連用形-ウ音便
Updated: 2026年8月25日
📖 Grammar Information
| 表層形 (Surface) |
細長う
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|---|---|
| 見出し語 (Lemma) |
細長い
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| 読み (Reading) |
ホソナゴー
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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) |
細長う
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| 読み・基本形 |
ホソナガイ
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| 表記・基本形 |
細長い
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| 見出し語の読み |
ホソナガイ
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💡 English Meaning
細長う means “long and narrow” — full definition & examples →
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Reading & Info
ホソナゴー
Lemma: 細長い
形容詞一般**
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⚡ 形容詞 (I-adjective) Inflections
| 丁寧形 (Polite) |
細長いです
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| 否定形 (Negative) |
細長くない
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| 過去形 (Past) |
細長かった
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| て形 (Te-form) |
細長くて
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| 副詞形 (Adverbial) |
細長く
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| 仮定形 (Conditional) |
細長ければ
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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 (細長う) is the exact text as it appeared in the corpus — it may be conjugated or inflected. The lemma (細長い) is the dictionary base form. For example, 食べた (surface) has the lemma 食べる.
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The reading shows the pronunciation in hiragana or katakana as recorded by UniDic. For kanji entries this is the standard reading of this specific surface form — which may differ from other readings of the same kanji.
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