Chapter 8 - Adjectives and Adverbs

Question 1

Stem + い

Answer 1

Affirmative non-past plain adjective (takai)

Question 2

Stem + くない

Answer 2

Negative non-past plain adjective (takaku nai)

Question 3

Stem + かった

Answer 3

Affirmative past plain adjective (takakatta)

Question 4

Stem + くなかった

Answer 4

Negative past plain adjective (takaku nakatta)

Question 5

Stem + いです

Answer 5

Non-past affirmative polite adjective (takai desu)

Question 6

Stem + くありません or stem + くないです

Answer 6

Non-past negative polite adjective (takaku arimasen or takaku nai desu)

Question 7

Stem + かったです

Answer 7

Affirmative past polite adjective (takakatta desu)

Question 8

Stem + くありませんでした

or stem + くなかったです

Answer 8

Negative past polite adjective (takaku arimasendeshita or takaku nakatta desu)

Question 9

Stem + だ

Answer 9

Affirmative non-past plain adjective (kōka da)

Question 10

Stem + じゃない

Answer 10

Negative non-past plain adjective (kōka ja nai)

Question 11

Stem + だった

Answer 11

Affirmative past plain adjective (kōka datta)

Question 12

Stem + じゃなかった

Answer 12

Negative past plain adjective (kōka ja nakatta)

Question 13

Stem + です

Answer 13

Affirmative non-past polite adjective (kōka desu)

Question 14

Stem + じゃありません

or stem + じゃないです

Answer 14

Negative non-past polite adjective (kōka ja arimasen or kōka ja nai desu)

Question 15

Stem + でした

Answer 15

Affirmative past polite adjective (kōka deshita)

Question 16

Stem + じゃありませんでした

or stem + じゃなかったです

Answer 16

Negative past polite adjective (kōka ja arimasendeshita or kōka ja nakatta desu)

Question 17

とても

Answer 17

Very much

Question 18

まあまあ

Answer 18

More or less (positive connotation - speaker feels favorable toward state)

Question 19

少し

Answer 19

すこし - slightly (negative connotation - speaker feels unfavorable toward state)

Question 20

ちょっと

Answer 20

A little (negative connotation - speaker feels unfavorable toward state)

Question 21

あまり

Answer 21

(Not) very much

Question 22

ぜんぜん

Answer 22

(Not) at all

Question 23

よく

Answer 23

Often

Question 24

ときどき

Answer 24

Sometimes

Question 25

あまり

Answer 25

(Not) very often

Question 26

ぜんぜん

Answer 26

(Not) at all

Question 27

いつも

Answer 27

Always

Question 28

たいてい

Answer 28

Usually

Question 29

近

Answer 29

KIN; chika- Near Visual: A seal, brandishing an axe, coming Nearer and nearer to a waiter who served him frozen salmon. Aural: He isn't KIN on going anywhere Near chikago, after that big fire.

Question 30

失

Answer 30

SHITSU; ushina - Lose (misplace)/sense of failure and error Visual: Sumo wrestlers are always Loseing hammers. Aural: After Loseing a match, the exhausted female sumo wrestler got a SHITSU massage, and ooh she napped!

Question 31

弓

Answer 31

KYŪ; yumi - Bow (like bow & arrow) Visual: Looks like a Bow. Aural: PacK YŪr Bow, yu, mi, and her are going hunting.

Question 32

馬

Answer 32

BA; uma - Horse Less common: ma Visual: Saddle on four legs. Aural: Zoom around in the BArn on a Horse.

Question 33

週

Answer 33

SHŪ - Week Visual: Every Week the seal swims around its cage. Aural: The seal wears new SHŪs every Week.

Question 34

引

Answer 34

IN; hi - Pull (sense of attraction, receding, withdrawing) Visual: Pulling a bow with a pole-like device. Aural: If you're IN hilo, try the Pull pork.

Question 35

秒

Answer 35

BYŌ - Second (as in minutes and seconds) Visual: With few crops, Seconds count; the people grow weaker by the second. Aural: I could only stand his B.O. for a Second, then I had to leave.

Question 36

甲

Answer 36

KŌ - Shell Less common: KAN Visual: Looks like a fly swatter, you'll need to swat flies when collecting Shells on the beach. Aural: KŌ sells sea Shells by the seashore.

Question 37

気

Answer 37

KI - Spirit (also air/feeling/mood) Less common: KE Visual: My Spirit was crushed after not making the ski team, so I hammered hamburger patties and banana peels into the ski jump so athletes would slip. Aural: The KI to skiing is high Spirits.

Question 38

時

Answer 38

JI; toki - Time Visual: A sundial at a temple marking Time. Aural: JI is used to mark hours of the day. Tokidoki (時々) means someTimes.

Question 39

話

Answer 39

WA; hanashi, hana - Speak (sense of conversations/stories) Visual: Say + tongue = Speak Aural: Hannah shielded the Han ambassador from having to Speak by WAving her arms in front of the reporters.

Question 40

英

Answer 40

EI - English (secondary meaning of brilliance) Visual: The English put English roses in the center of their wreaths. Aural: English/EInglo-Saxon.

Question 41

訓

Answer 41

KUN - Instruction (more serious/spiritual connotation) Visual: Instruction for rivers: listen to what I say and flow downhill. Aural: RaKUN (raccoon) Instruction mostly involves how to forage in trash cans.

Question 42

押

Answer 42

o - Push (suppression/restraint) Less common: Ō Visual: Fingers gripping a fly swatter and Pushing it away forcefully. Aural: If Pushing the orangutan doesn't get her off of you, use the fly swatter.

Question 43

年

Answer 43

NEN; toshi - Year Visual: Every Year the whirling dervish wins the hammer toss. Aural: This Year my NENa got me a lotto sheet as a stocking stuffer.

Question 44

来

Answer 44

RAI; ku - Come (also next) Less common: ki Visual: "Come on, dig in" - hamburger patty on uncooked rice. Aural: "Come on, dig in - the RAI sandwich is kul enough to eat."

Question 45

学

Answer 45

GAKU; mana - Study/learning; as suffix it means -ology. Visual: A child who doesn't study gets snatched by a UFO, unless they scratch their claws on the blackboard (aliens can't stand it.) Aural: People Studying at ultra-feminist GAK U (Gawk U) gawk when they hear man answers.

Question 46

意

Answer 46

I - Mind/Thought (in compounds, "will", "intention", "opinion", etc.) Visual: The sound of your heart fills my Mind. Aural: In my Mind, the sound of my heart is "Eeeee!"

Question 47

又

Answer 47

mata - Again (this kanji looks like an ironing board) | Visual/aural: mata (mother) forcing me to iron Again and Again.

Question 48

赤

Answer 48

SEKI; aka - Red Less common: SHAKU Visual: An anteater looking for Red fireants in the Red Earth. Aural: "Did you SE KIth (say Keith) can stack apples only if they're Red?"