長い

Japanese

Kanji in this term
なが
Grade: 2
kun’yomi

Etymology

From Old Japanese. First attested in the Kojiki of 712 CE.[1] From Proto-Japonic *nanka.

Possibly cognate with 流れる (nagareru, to flow, intransitive), and 流す (nagasu, to flow, transitive), in reference to extending.

Pronunciation

  • Tokyo pitch accent of inflected forms of "長い"
Source: Online Japanese Accent Dictionary
Stem forms
Continuative (連用形) 長く がく
[náꜜgàkù]
[nàgáꜜkù]
Terminal (終止形) 長い [nàgáꜜì]
Attributive (連体形) 長い [nàgáꜜì]
Key constructions
Informal negative 長くない がくない
くない
[náꜜgàkùnàì]
[nàgáꜜkùnàì]
Informal past 長かった がかった
かった
[náꜜgàkàttà]
[nàgáꜜkàttà]
Informal negative past 長くなかった がくなかった
くなかった
[náꜜgàkùnàkàttà]
[nàgáꜜkùnàkàttà]
Formal 長いです いです [nàgáꜜìdèsù]
Conjunctive 長くて がくて
くて
[náꜜgàkùtè]
[nàgáꜜkùtè]
Conditional 長ければ がければ
ければ
[náꜜgàkèrèbà]
[nàgáꜜkèrèbà]

Adjective

(なが) • (nagai) -i (adverbial (なが) (nagaku))

  1. long
    Antonym: 短い (mijikai)
    (なが)ファイル(めい)
    nagai fairumei
    a long filename
    (なが)(いと)
    nagai ito
    a long string
  2. 永い: (time) long, lengthy
    (なが)(あいだ)
    nagai aida
    a long interval
    トイレ(なが)よ。
    Toire nagai yo.
    You're taking forever on the toilet.

Inflection

Derived terms

See also

References

  1. 長・永”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, Nihon Kokugo Daijiten) (in Japanese), concise edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000
  2. 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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