苛う
むごう · mugoi
i-adjective 連用形
苛う is the masu-stem of 苛い — cruel, merciless, pitiless, brutal, atrocious, inhuman.
- tragic, horrible, terrible, dreadful, miserable, ugly, horrifying
How it’s built
苛い
苛う
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).
苛い is a i-adjective, so it follows that pattern.
Name that form
Three more forms of 苛い. Can you tell what each one is?
Every form of 苛い
| Negative (ない形) | 苛くないむごくない |
| Past (た形) | 苛かったむごかった |
| Past negative (なかった) | 苛くなかったむごくなかった |
| Te-form (て形) | 苛くてむごくて |
| Adverb (副詞形) | 苛くむごく |
| Before a noun (連体形) | 苛いむごい |
| Ba-conditional (条件形) | 苛ければむごければ |
| Tara-conditional (たら形) | 苛かったらむごかったら |
| Become ~ (~なる) | 苛くなるむごくなる |
| Too ~ (~すぎる) | 苛すぎるむごすぎる |
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Other forms and spellings
苛けれ苛きゃ苛けりゃ苛かろ苛かろう苛かろふ苛い苛え苛く苛かっSave your words
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