安い

Japanese

Kanji in this term
やす
Grade: 3
Alternative spelling
廉い

Etymology

From Old Japanese. First appears in the Kojiki of 712 CE as 夜須(久) (yasu(ku)).[1][2] In turn from Proto-Japonic *yasu. Cognate with 休む (yasumu, to rest).[2][3]

Pronunciation

  • Tokyo pitch accent of inflected forms of "安い"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Continuative (連用形) 安く すく
[yáꜜsùkù]
[yàsúꜜkù]
Terminal (終止形) 安い [yàsúꜜì]
Attributive (連体形) 安い [yàsúꜜì]
Key constructions
Informal negative 安くない すくない
くない
[yáꜜsùkùnàì]
[yàsúꜜkùnàì]
Informal past 安かった すかった
かった
[yáꜜsùkàttà]
[yàsúꜜkàttà]
Informal negative past 安くなかった すくなかった
くなかった
[yáꜜsùkùnàkàttà]
[yàsúꜜkùnàkàttà]
Formal 安いです いです [yàsúꜜìdèsù]
Conjunctive 安くて すくて
くて
[yáꜜsùkùtè]
[yàsúꜜkùtè]
Conditional 安ければ すければ
ければ
[yáꜜsùkèrèbà]
[yàsúꜜkèrèbà]

Adjective

(やす) • (yasui) -i (adverbial (やす) (yasuku))

  1. inexpensive
  2. cheap

Inflection

Synonyms

Antonyms

See also

References

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    Omodaka, Hisataka (1967) 時代別国語大辞典 上代編 [The dictionary of historical Japanese: Old Japanese] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. やす・い 【安・易】”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, Nihon Kokugo Daijiten) (in Japanese), 2nd edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000, released online 2007, →ISBN, concise edition entry available here (Note: Dialectal meanings, etymological theories, pronunciation including modern, dialectal, and historical information, Jōdai Tokushu Kanazukai, historical dictionaries containing this word, and the kanji spellings in those dictionaries have been omitted.)
  3. Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  4. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  5. NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
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