Expressing the feeling of others - 〜がる

When expressing the feelings of others, we cannot use the same form of adjectives that we would use to describe our own feeling. In this situations the adjective must be modified with がる.

For example when expressing that one's leg is painful, we can use the sentence 足あしが_痛いたい_, however when talking about others the adjective needs to be modifed, i.e. 母ははの足あしを_痛いたが_っ_て_い_る_.

• い-adjective: drop the final い, append がる
• な-adjective: append がる

An important thing to note is also the change of particle used before the adjective: while talking about oneself が_ is used, but changes to を_ when talking about others.

When talking about a currently ongoing situation, the continuous form of 〜がる (conjugated to 〜がっている) is commonly used.

Examples

い-adjectives:

な-adjectives: