てき
Meanings
Suffix
1. 名詞に付けて「~のような」「~の性質の」「~についての」「~に関する」等の意を表わす形容動詞を造る。明清期の用法の影響と想像されるが、英語の接尾辞"-tic"の音写との説もある。
2. (俗語。主に「〜的な」「〜的に」の形で広く名詞・代名詞に付けて)「~の点」「~の上」「~に関する」といった意味を表す。
3. (俗語。主に「〜的な」の形で広く語句に付けて)「~というような」「~という趣旨の」といった意味を表す。
Kanji used
target
Pitch accent
Top 400
Used in vocabulary (835 in total)
purpose; goal; aim; objective; intention
fundamental; basic
Examples (28 in total)
Tom is impulsive.
I hit the mark with the arrow.
Life is more hellish than hell itself.
I really love French things.
She had an unfriendly attitude.
Women are physically weaker than men.
This building is extremely innovative.
This building looks very futuristic.
Colloquial speech is used in everyday conversation.
I trust his executive ability.
I want to become both physically and mentally stronger.
Everyone will accept that idea in principle.
How can you be so passive? Why don't you retaliate?
Tom is too old to be doing that.
Tom said he thought I was charismatic.
Tyrannical governments frequently imprison their political opponents.
I made a temporary repair to the broken door.
This is a sociological study on abortion.
Corporate earnings for the first quarter were disappointing.
We cannot ask anything about age or physical problems.
Must the woman always play the secondary role?
They gave the party their full support in their anti-colonialist editorials.
Global climatic changes may have been responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs.
With respect to financial matters, Mr. Jones knows more than anyone else in the company.
That decision, in turn, was affected by the geological structure of the hill itself.
Let's sing a patriotic song.
My grandfather is still active at eighty.
How long adolescence continues is determined by biological factors.