JLPT N5 vocabulary
古い: meaning, reading and conjugation
Reading and pitch accent
ふるい2Nakadaka · falls inside
i-adjective
Meaning
- old, aged, ancient, antiquated, antique, timeworn (of things, not people)
- long, since long ago, time-honored
- of the distant past, long-ago
- stale, threadbare, hackneyed, corny
- old-fashioned, outmoded, out-of-date
Conjugation
| Form | Affirmative | Negative |
|---|---|---|
| Basics | ||
| Plain present普通形 | 古い | 古 |
| Plain past過去形 | 古 | 古 |
| Polite presentです形 | 古い | 古 |
| Polite pastでした形 | 古 | 古 |
| Te-formて形 | 古 | 古 |
| Modifying | ||
| Before a noun連体形 | 古い | —not in common use |
| As an adverb連用形 | 古 | —not in common use |
| Conditions and moods | ||
| If (-ba)ば形 | 古 | 古 |
| If / when (-tara)たら形 | 古 | 古 |