腥う
なまぐそう · namagusou
腥う is the masu-stem of 腥い — smelling of fish, fishy, smelling of blood, bloody.
- degenerate (of a monk), depraved, corrupt, fallen
- worldly, mundane, secular, common, ordinary
How it’s built
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).
腥い is a i-adjective, so it follows that pattern.
Name that form
Three more forms of 腥い. Can you tell what each one is?
Every form of 腥い
| Negative (ない形) | 腥くないなまぐさくない |
| Past (た形) | 腥かったなまぐさかった |
| Past negative (なかった) | 腥くなかったなまぐさくなかった |
| Te-form (て形) | 腥くてなまぐさくて |
| Adverb (副詞形) | 腥くなまぐさく |
| Before a noun (連体形) | 腥いなまぐさい |
| Ba-conditional (条件形) | 腥ければなまぐさければ |
| Tara-conditional (たら形) | 腥かったらなまぐさかったら |
| Become ~ (~なる) | 腥くなるなまぐさくなる |
| Too ~ (~すぎる) | 腥すぎるなまぐさすぎる |
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Other forms and spellings
腥けれ腥きゃ腥けりゃ腥かろ腥かろう腥かろふ腥い腥え腥腥く腥かっSave your words
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