Browsing the blog archivesfor the day Sunday, October 17th, 2010

Short

    mijika-i, tan The adjective “mijikai” means short. As we saw before, nagasa has two meanings: “length” and “being long.” Unlike nagasa, the noun mijikasa doesn’t mean length. It only means “being short.” Although we sometimes use “chō” as a verb by adding the suffix “-zuru,” a voiced sound of “-suru”, we don’t use this [...]