"Is it near?"

Translation: 近いですか？

[JohnPMChappell]

近いですか。

[Arn272599]

ありがとうございます

[LawalArnol]

Why is it ちかい not ちかく?

[HolomorphicShawn]

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

[vngdhuyen]

so the same goes for とおい and とおく？

[hollt693]

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?

[davidd1235]

Yeah... Is there a grammatical difference between those two phrases?

[Aelianos]

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.

[Dylan_Nicholson]

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.

[JWong60254]

It's accepted now (at least with the fullwidth question mark).

[Dylan_Nicholson]

I actually suspect it doesn't care whether you use a question mark at all, but thanks. Cool colour scheme, btw!

[NessDan]

Would "chikai ka" be valid?

[_kayla_h]

why no "was" in this?

[vngdhuyen]

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?"

[facundo-lopez]

No audio here.

[Sana12242]

丁寧語じゃなくて友達に聞く時とかは「近い？」とか「それ、近い？」って言う。

[CobiCobi]

「近いか」が不正確とか、笑える。

[neko374701]

going from "it takes about 5 minutes to get from the train station to the hotel by car", i dont think "is it near" is a hard question