eiga wa omoshirokute, nido (twice) mimashita.
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5. Kono kooen wa tanoshikute, mainichi kimasu.
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Write these sentences in Japanese:
1. The water is cold and delicious.
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2. The computer is old and so is not good.
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3. That restaurant is inexpensive and good.
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4. (My) eyes are red and hurt*.
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5. The teacher is young and beautiful.
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6. That pizza was good so I ate it everyday.
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7. It’s big and blue*.
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8. It’s unusual* and interesting.
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9. The watch is small and expensive.
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10. It’s old and so it doesn’t taste good.
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11. The bus is slow and dirty*.
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12. The cat is small and cute*.
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12. The -te Form of Negative Adjectives
What if you wanted to say, It’s not bad and it’s inexpensive. In other words, you are describing it as having two characteristics, not bad and inexpensive. To express this idea, you could say, Yasukute waruku nai desu, or you could use the negative -te form of warui, waruku nakute yasui desu.
To make the -te form of a negative adjective: first make the negative plain form, then drop the i from nai and add -kute.
Example: atsui > atsuku nai > atsuku nakute
The negative -te form, like the -te form we have just studied, has no tense. The tense of the sentence is determined by the last inflected expression.
Try doing this exercise with the adjectives indicated:
Neg. short form Neg. -te form
1. ookii _____________________
2. mazui _____________________
3. tooi _____________________
4. urusai* _____________________
5. atatakai _____________________
6. aoi* _____________________
7. isogashii _____________________
8. kuroi* _____________________
9. sabishii* _____________________
10. samui _____________________
11. chikai _____________________
12. kawaii* _____________________
13. ii _____________________
14. yasashii _____________________
15. suzushii _____________________
As fast as you can, write the negative -te form of the following adjectives which are given in English:
Example: not far (and) > tooku nakute
1. not small (and) _____________________
2. not cheap (and) _____________________
3. not difficult (and) _____________________
4. not interesting (and) _____________________
5. not lonely* (and) _____________________
6. not cool (and) _____________________
7. not bad tasting (and) _____________________
8. not expensive (and) _____________________
9. not fun (and) _____________________
10. not unusual* (and) _____________________
11. not old (and) _____________________
12. not bad (and) _____________________
13. not easy (and) _____________________
14. not sweet (and) _____________________
15. not dangerous* (and) _____________________
The same rules apply in making a sentence with a negative -te form as for the -te form in the affirmative. Remember that, depending on the meaning, the -te form can mean either and or and so.
Try these sentences yourself:
1. The car wasn’t old and so it was good.
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2. The beer isn’t cold so it tasted bad.
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3. The meat isn’t fresh so it tastes bad.
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4. The dictionary isn’t big so it’s good.
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5. Today wasn’t hot so it was good.
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13. Two or More Adjectives
Describing a Noun
So far, we’ve seen cases where the -te form is used to link adjectives in the predicate. Let’s look at cases where two or more adjectives modify a noun. If you wanted to say the phrase a big, new house in Japanese, you would use the -te form of the adjective to
