て-form of い-Adjectives (くて) (Refer to DBJG Te pp.464 – 467 for more sample sentences.)

 

Te forms of adjectives can be used in various structures. When て-forms of adjectives are used by itself, it serves as connecting/linking sentences without any sentence connector such as それから、そして、etc. This linking function is the same as what we learned about て-forms of verbs.
 

Click here to get a chart and practice Te-forms of adjectives.

 

い-Adjective root + く + て + another adjective or verb. (Change “い” to “く” and add てright after it.)

e.g.  このレストランは、おいしくて（あたらしくて）やすいです。 (lit. This restaurant is tasty, (new,) and inexpensive. このレストランは、おいしくて（あたらしくて）やすかったです。 (lit. This restaurant was tasty, (new,) and inexpensive. Note: Te-forms does not indicate any past or non-past form.  You need to see the endings of the sentences to see if it is past or non-past.

Compare the above sentence  with what you have learned before (see below).

  このレストランは、おいしい、（あたらしい、）やすいレストランです。

Lit. This restaurant is tasty, (new,) and inexpensive restaurant. (It sounds redundant.)

This form requires a noun after the adjectives but if you connect the adjectives with –くて form, noun is not required (in other words, you should not use noun after –くて form.

(Refer to the page containing key sentences for meanings)
日本のりんごはアメリカのりんごより大きくて、香りがよくて、甘いです。日本には、四季があって、冬は寒くて、春は暖かくて、夏は暑くて、秋は涼しいです。　すいかは、外が緑色で中が赤くて、丸い大きな夏の果物です。　たまに、中が黄色いすいかも見かけます。
栗は、外が茶色で、中が黄色くて、私の好きな秋の食べ物です。


Assignment 1-6 A:

By using the Te-forms of adjectives, etc,
1&2.  Describe two people such as your family member, your friends, movie starts, etc.
3&4.  Describe two places such as your favorite cities/towns or place of your residence, birth, etc.
5&6. Describe two more items which as favorite restaurant, food, movie, books, etc.