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美いっ

いっ · i

JLPT N1 i-adjective 終止形

is the plain (dictionary) form of 美い — good, excellent, fine, nice, pleasant, agreeable.

  • sufficient, enough, ready, prepared
  • profitable (deal, business offer, etc.), beneficial
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美い 美っ

Plain (dictionary) form (). The form you find in a dictionary. It ends a casual sentence: 食べる。

This spelling is the version with a small っ (sound change before て/た): 待っ → 待って.

美い is a i-adjective, so it follows that pattern.

Name that form

Three more forms of . Can you tell what each one is?

Every form of

Negative 美くないよくない
Past 美かったよかった
Past negative 美くなかったよくなかった
Te-form 美くてよくて
Adverb 美くよく
Before a noun 美いよい
Ba-conditional 美ければよければ
Tara-conditional 美かったらよかったら
Become ~ 美くなるよくなる
Too ~ 美すぎるよすぎる

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Other forms and spellings

美けれ美きゃ美けりゃ美かろ美かろう美かろふ美い美美ゅう美く美かっ
plain (dictionary) form of …