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adjective negative forms
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い adjectives
い adjectives, and forms such as the ~たい form which function as い adjectives, can be made negative by replacing the い with くない.
The negative form is then conjugated similarly to い adjectives.
In older Japanese, the form ~くないです (is not ~) may be replaced with the more literary sounding ~くありません.
にん
人
にし
知
られたくありませんでした。
However, he didn't want that to be known by anyone else.
Source: The Nose (Ryutagawa)
This can sometimes be interposed with は - for example, やりたくはありません.
な adjectives
な adjectives are negated by using the appropriate negative form of です.
| しずか (quiet) |
| しずかです (is quiet) |
| しずかではありません (is not quiet) |
| しずかなところ (a quiet place) |
| しずかではないところ (a place that is not quiet) |
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