憎らしい

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
にく
Grade: S
kun’yomi
Alternative spelling
憎らしい (kyūjitai)

Pronunciation

  • Tokyo pitch accent of inflected forms of "憎らしい"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Continuative (連用形) 憎らしく くらしく
くらし

Terminal (終止形) 憎らしい くらし
Attributive (連体形) 憎らしい くらし
Key constructions
Informal negative 憎らしくない くらしくない
くらしくない

Informal past 憎らしかった くらしかった
くらしかった

Informal negative past 憎らしくなかった くらしくなかった
くらしくなかった

Formal 憎らしいです くらしいです
Conjunctive 憎らしくて くらしくて
くらしくて

Conditional 憎らしければ くらしければ
くらしければ

Adjective

(にく)らしい (nikurashii-i (adverbial (にく)らしく (nikurashiku))

  1. hateful; odious; detestable

Inflection

References

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