～っぽい: Judging a Book by its Cover
adept #28
~ 5 Minutes
Introduction
Welcome to a lesson where we'll judge people and things based on their appearance and our opinion of them. No, it's different from bullying, it's more... grammatical. I think.
～っぽい: This lesson is very cool-ish
構成
Verb/い-adjective stemっぽい
な-adjective/nounっぽい
Example:
→ 赤っぽいやつでお願いします。
”I'll take the reddish one please.”
～っぽい is a casual suffix that's all about judging a book by its cover. Basically, we see a thing, and we say, hey that looks "distinctive characteristic X-ish!". But in... not so many words.
Attachment
～っぽい attaches to the stem form
The "stem" of a verb, made by conjugating a verb to its ます-form and removing ます (e.g. 食べる → 食べます → 食べ).
of a verb, or い-adjective (remove the final い), like so:
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Homework (Grammar SRS)
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