Can someone please give a detailed grammatical explanation to why and how Atatakai has become atatakakute?
thanks!
atatakai
Zaina
February 23, 2008
Sayaka-Matsuura
March 12, 2008
When you join verb sentences or adjective sentences with "and", the first verb or the first adjective is changed to the "te-form".
"Atatakakute" is the te-form of "atatakai".
For example, if you want to say "This sweater is warm and pretty," you would say:
Kono SEETAA wa atatakakute, kiree desu.
Drop off "i" from "atatakai" and add "kute". That's how you get the te-form of an I-adjective.
On the other hand, if you place a NA-adjective first in this sentence:
Kono SEETAA wa kiree de atatakai desu.
Na-adjective does not have a te-form. Instead, you add "de".
Zaina
March 12, 2008
:) thanks, that was a load off
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