可愛らしい

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Japanese

Kanji in this term

Grade: 5
(ateji)
あい > わい
Grade: 4
(ateji)
on'yomi irregular

Etymology

From 可愛(かわい) (kawaii) + らしい (-rashii).

Pronunciation

  • Tokyo pitch accent of inflected forms of 「可愛らしい
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Continuative (連用形) 可愛らしく わいらしく
わいらし

Terminal (終止形) 可愛らしい わいらし
Attributive (連体形) 可愛らしい わいらし
Key constructions
Informal negative 可愛らしくない わいらしくない
わいらしくない

Informal past 可愛らしかった わいらしかった
わいらしかった

Informal negative past 可愛らしくなかった わいらしくなかった
わいらしくなかった

Formal 可愛らしいです わいらしいです
Conjunctive 可愛らしくて わいらしくて
わいらしくて

Conditional 可愛らしければ わいらしければ
わいらしければ

Adjective

()(わい)らしい (kawairashiiかはいらしい (kafairasii)?-i (adverbial ()(わい)らしく (kawairashiku))

  1. darling, lovely, pretty

Inflection

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN