Nihoner

腥なまぐそう

なまぐそう · namagusou

JLPT N1 i-adjective 連用形

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
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How it’s built

腥い 腥う

Masu-stem (). 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 . Can you tell what each one is?

Every form of

Negative 腥くないなまぐさくない
Past 腥かったなまぐさかった
Past negative 腥くなかったなまぐさくなかった
Te-form 腥くてなまぐさくて
Adverb 腥くなまぐさく
Before a noun 腥いなまぐさい
Ba-conditional 腥ければなまぐさければ
Tara-conditional 腥かったらなまぐさかったら
Become ~ 腥くなるなまぐさくなる
Too ~ 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
masu-stem of 腥い