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Infix
| An infix attached to the stem of an adjective い to indicate something that one cannot objectively measure on any scale (e.g. human emotion). |
悲しい 楽しい らしい 美味しい 苦しい 頼もしい
Sad enjoyable seem delicious painful dependable
悔しい 厳しい 羨ましい 寂しい 惜しい 妬ましい
Regrettable strict envious lonely regrettable enviable
恐ろしい 難しい 恋しい 嬉しい 親しい 涼しい
Scary difficult dear happy intimate cool
Adjectives (い) that do not contain -し- are, for the most part, descriptive adjectives that are dependent on the speaker’s objective judgment. In other words, they are adjectives which indicate something that one can objectively measure on some scale. Typical descriptive adjectives are:
| 赤い (red) | 低い (low) | 青い (blue) | 堅い (hard) |
| 大きい (big) | 浅い (shallow) | 軽い (light) | 白い (white) |
| 小さい (small) | 黒い (black) | 高い (high) | 近い (near) |
| 短い (short) | 薄い (thin) | 深い (deep) | 長い (long) |
| 安い (cheap) | 柔らかい (soft) | 若い (young) | 濃い (thick) |