等しい

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
Grade: 3
kun’yomi
Alternative spellings
均しい
斉しい

Pronunciation

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

Terminal (終止形) 等しい とし
Attributive (連体形) 等しい とし
Key constructions
Informal negative 等しくない しくない
としくない

Informal past 等しかった しかった
としかった

Informal negative past 等しくなかった しくなかった
としくなかった

Formal 等しいです としいです
Conjunctive 等しくて しくて
としくて

Conditional 等しければ しければ
としければ

Adjective

(ひと)しい (hitoshii-i (adverbial (ひと)しく (hitoshiku))

  1. equal
  2. no different, virtually same, as good as
    • 1947, Kitaōji Rosanjin, お米の話:
      それでは料理人(りょうりにん)としての資格(しかく)はゼロに(ひと)しいといわれても、(かれ)らは一向(いっこう)頓着(とんちゃく)しない。
      Sore de wa ryōrinin toshite no shikaku wa zero ni hitoshii to iwarete mo, karera wa ikkō ni tonchaku shinai.
      So even though people say their qualifications as chefs are practically nil, it doesn't concern them at all.

Inflection

References

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