Learning objectives
- Lesson goals: Slight tendency — usually negative or self-deprecating.
- Form and connection: [Noun/Verbます形] 気味ぎみ
- Nuance in real use: Measures life's smallest tilts—not sick, but "feeling a cold coming."
Form and connection
Core Explanation
Slight tendency — usually negative or self-deprecating.
Cultural Note
Practical examples
Common pitfalls
Build the base form before adding the pattern
Complete the required conjugation first. Do not keep polite and plain endings at the same time.
Match politeness to the situation
The examples are reliable starting points; relationships and context can still change the most natural wording.
Practice and answers
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[Noun/Verbます形] 気味ぎみShow answer
I've been gaining a bit of weight lately.Show answer
ちょっと風邪かぜ気味ぎみで早退そうたいします。 ([Noun/Verbます形] 気味ぎみ)Continue learning
Made: Even
Extreme example — "even." This lesson combines form, context, examples, common mistakes, and practice so you can use the pattern in real communication.
Gachi: Tends To
Tendency toward something — usually undesirable. This lesson combines form, context, examples, common mistakes, and practice so you can use the pattern in real communication.
Complete Guide to Plain Forms: Linking Ideas, Quotations, and Judgments
Learn the plain forms of nouns, adjectives, and verbs and use them to modify nouns, quote speech, express time and reasons, state plans, make judgments, and build indirect questions.