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Japanese verb直接 (chokusetsu) Conjugation
直接 (chokusetsu) means “direct, immediate, personal”. It is a な-adjective verb. It is a な-adjective: it takes な before a noun (直接な) and だ or です after it, so 直接だ, 直接でした, 直接に. Below is its conjugation in all 14 forms, plain and polite, the same forms the Japanese verb conjugation worksheets print in their answer keys.
- Meaning
- direct, immediate, personal
- Type
- な-adjective
- Dictionary form
- 直接
- Reading
- ちょくせつ
- Romaji
- chokusetsu
- Negative
- 直接じゃない
- Past
- 直接だった
- Te-form
- 直接で
- Adverb
- 直接に
Basic forms
Present現在形・辞書形
| Plain | 直接だ |
|---|---|
| Plain negative | 直接じゃない / 直接ではない |
| Polite | 直接です |
| Polite negative | 直接じゃありません / 直接ではありません |
Past過去形・た形
| Plain | 直接だった |
|---|---|
| Plain negative | 直接じゃなかった / 直接ではなかった |
| Polite | 直接でした |
| Polite negative | 直接じゃありませんでした / 直接ではありませんでした |
Te-formて形
| Plain | 直接で |
|---|---|
| Plain negative | 直接じゃなくて / 直接ではなくて |
Can and if
Conditional (-ba)仮定形・ば
| Plain | 直接なら |
|---|---|
| Plain negative | 直接でなければ |
Conditional (-tara)たら
| Plain | 直接だったら |
|---|---|
| Plain negative | 直接じゃなかったら / 直接ではなかったら |
Adjectives
Adverb (adjectives)連用形
| Adverb | 直接に |
|---|
More common Japanese verbs and adjectives
- 主要 (shuyou)chief, main, principal
- 十分 (juubun)enough, sufficient, plenty
- 上がったり (agattari)doomed, in a bad state, poor
- 深刻 (shinkoku)serious, severe, grave
- 正式 (seishiki)formal, official, regular
- 正常 (seijou)normal, regular
- 同様 (douyou)same, similar, like
- 独自 (dokuji)original, unique, distinctive
- 比べる (kuraberu)to compare, to make a comparison
- 非常 (hijou)extreme, great, extraordinary
- 不安 (fuan)anxiety, uneasiness, worry
- 不足 (fusoku)insufficiency, deficiency, shortage
About these tables
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