いい
いい
hepburn ii
good (colloquial)
Part of speech · i-adjective
Pattern visualization
no decomposition available
Examples
- この映画はいいですよ。This movie is good, you know.
- 気分がよくないです。I'm not feeling well.
Collocations
いい映画 (good movie)いい人 (good person)いいですか (Is it OK?)良い (yoi, formal/written form)よくない (not good)
Mnemonic
いい ii — IRREGULAR i-adjective. Plain form is いい but conjugates from a different stem よ (yo): negative よくない, past よかった, adverbial よく, te-form よくて. The same word writes as 良い yoi (formal). The everyday softener for "good/OK". いいですか? "Is it OK?" is high-frequency.
Quick check
"It was not good" — polite Japanese?