形容詞

Taken apart

1. 形容

   けいよう

   description; form

2. +

3. 詞

   し

   word; part of speech

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Written with 形容詞

In a sentence

• 英語(えいご)の副詞(ふくし)の中(なか)には形容詞(けいようし)の役目(やくめ)をするものがある。

  Some English adverbs function as adjectives.

  Tatoeba #189163, translation #26310

• 名詞(めいし)を修飾(しゅうしょく)するもの（形容詞(けいようし)、または形容詞(けいようし)相当(そうとう)語句(ごく)）。

  Things that modify nouns (adjective, or adjectival equivalent).

  Tatoeba #75098, translation #328621

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What Wiktionary says

Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.

• “From 形(けい)容(よう) (keiyō, “description; form”) + 詞(し) (-shi, “word; part of speech”).”
• “First cited to 1870.”

Source: Wiktionary: 形容詞 (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).

What the labels mean

漢語 Sino-Japanese

Words built from Chinese-derived morphemes — borrowed from Chinese or coined in Japan out of Chinese parts — read with on'yomi.

Compound

Two or more words or stems joined into one.