"っぽい" meaning in Japanese

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Suffix

Etymology: Emphasis of earlier form ぽい (poi), in turn apparently an Edo-period shift from 多い (ōi, “many, much, lots of”), based on earlier kana spelling おほい. Etymology templates: {{ja-r|ぽい}} ぽい (poi), {{m|ja|多い||many, much, lots of|tr=ōi}} 多い (ōi, “many, much, lots of”), {{m|ja||おほい}} おほい Head templates: {{ja-pos|suffix}} っぽい • (-ppoi) Inflection templates: {{ja-adj-infl|adverbial=く|attributive=い|conditional=ければ|conjunctive=くて|continuative=く|degree=さ|formal=い です|formal_negative=く ない です|formal_negative_past=く なかった です|formal_past=かった です|hypothetical=けれ|imperative=かれ|imperfective=かろ|informal_negative=く ない|informal_negative_past=く なかった|informal_past=かった|kana=|lemma=っぽ|provisional=かったら|terminal=い|volitional=かろう}} Forms: -ppoi [romanization], no-table-tags [table-tags], っぽかろ [imperfective, stem], ppokaro [imperfective, stem], っぽく [continuative, stem], ppoku [continuative, stem], っぽい [stem, terminative], ppoi [stem, terminative], っぽい [attributive, stem], ppoi [attributive, stem], っぽけれ [hypothetical, stem], ppokere [hypothetical, stem], っぽかれ [imperative, stem], ppokare [imperative, stem], っぽくない [informal, negative], ppoku nai [informal, negative], っぽかった [informal, past], ppokatta [informal, past], っぽくなかった [informal, negative, past], ppoku nakatta [informal, negative, past], っぽいです [formal], ppoi desu [formal], っぽくないです [formal, negative], ppoku nai desu [formal, negative], っぽかったです [formal, past], ppokatta desu [formal, past], っぽくなかったです [formal, negative, past], ppoku nakatta desu [formal, negative, past], っぽくて [conjunctive], ppokute [conjunctive], っぽければ [conditional], ppokereba [conditional], っぽかったら [conditional, past], ppokattara [conditional, past], っぽかろう [volitional], ppokarō [volitional], っぽく [adverbial], ppoku [adverbial], っぽさ [noun-from-adj], pposa [noun-from-adj]
  1. -like, -ish, -esque Wikipedia link: Edo period Tags: morpheme Synonyms: みたい (mitai) Related terms: ぽい (poi)

Alternative forms

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      "form": "っぽくない",
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    {
      "form": "ppoi desu",
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "っぽくないです",
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    },
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      "form": "っぽければ",
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      "form": "っぽかろう",
      "source": "inflection",
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      "form": "ppokarō",
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              "子",
              "こ"
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              "供",
              "ども"
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          "english": "Her eyes are of a greenish color.",
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              "女",
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              "め"
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              "緑",
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              "色",
              "いろ"
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      "form": "っぽかれ",
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    {
      "form": "ppokare",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
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        "stem"
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    {
      "form": "っぽくない",
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      "tags": [
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        "negative"
      ]
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    {
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      "tags": [
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        "past"
      ]
    },
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        "past"
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        "past"
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    {
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    },
    {
      "form": "ppoi desu",
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      "tags": [
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      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "っぽくないです",
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      "tags": [
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      ]
    },
    {
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    {
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    {
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    {
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    },
    {
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              "ども"
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        },
        {
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            ],
            [
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              "め"
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        "Edo period"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "roman": "mitai",
      "word": "みたい"
    }
  ],
  "word": "っぽい"
}
{
  "called_from": "parser/1336",
  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
  "path": [
    "っぽい"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "suffix",
  "title": "っぽい",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Japanese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.