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"Is it near?"
Translation:近いですか？
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In general, you use 近い as the adjective form by itself or talking about the nearness of something
The station is nearby - 駅は近いです
You'll use the adverb form 近く when talking about the nearness in relationship to another object. You usually see it as OBJECTの近く:
The cat is near the bag - 猫は鞄の近くです
But in the case of 猫は鞄の近くです, isn't -の近く functioning as a preposition (or a postposition, as it were), just like -の上, -の間, etc., rather than an adverb? Or am I wrong?
I believe you make it -く and add ない when you want to make it negative. Otherwise you just leave it -い
ちかい means close ちかくない means not close
I think most adjectives ending in -い change like this.
Why is just "近い?" not right? From what I've heard in casual speech sentences that are just a single noun or adjective inflected as a question are pretty common.
I actually suspect it doesn't care whether you use a question mark at all, but thanks. Cool colour scheme, btw!
the past tense of い adjectives is formed by taking out the trailing い and adding かった, as you'll see in later lessons. you then have 近かった (ちかかった) meaning "was near", and 「近かったですか」 would be "was it near?"
Indeed, and since you can't "near", it would be better to say that you "are near".
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No, you can "near" things. There are sayings like "I'm nearing the station" and such after all.
