気持ちいい, Kimochi-ii - Meaning in Japanese

kimochi-ii 気持ちいい means literally "of good feeling," or less literally "pleasant." It's an expression used when something "feels good," like rain, for example, but grammatically it's classified as an

The word is also spelled kimochi-ii 気持ち良い, and kimichi-yoi 気持ちよい is a synonymous variant.

Manga:

Kids on the Slope

, Sakamichi no Apollon 坂道のアポロン (Chapter 2)

Grammar

The word kimochi-ii 気持ちいい means that something "feels good." Literally, it's the word for "feeling," ii いい.

The antonym, "feels bad," is ii いい.

Note, however, that kimochi-ii isn't a verb, "to feel good," it's that feels good." Grammatically, kimochi-ii is closer to "pleasant" in English, but in practice it translates to "feels good" most of the time.

Furthermore, from an English perspective, it's weird for an adjective to be alone in a sentence. Normally you don't say "fast," you say "it's fast." This is called a "dummy it." kimochi-ii is said alone in Japanese.

• kimochi-ii! 気持ちいい！
  [It's] good-feeling!
  [It's] pleasant!
  [It feels good]!

Usage

For reference, some examples of things that are kimochi-ii 気持ちいい.

Here with kimochi-ii in the predicative:

• ame ga kimochi-ii
  雨が気持ちいい
  The rain is pleasant.
  The rain [feels good].
• massaaji ga kimochi-ii
  マッサージが気持ちいい
  The message is pleasant.
  The massage [feels good].
• kaze ga kimochi-ii
  風が気持ちいい
  The wind is pleasant.
  The wind [feels good].

And here with kimochi-ii in the attributive:

• kimochi-ii uta 気持ちいい歌
  A pleasant song.
  A pleasant music.
• kimochi-ii oto 気持ちいい音
  A pleasant sound.

Sometimes it's connected after the te-form of another adjective. For example:

• tsumetai 冷たい
  Cold.
• tsumetakute kimochi-ii
  冷たくて気持ちいい
  Cold and pleasant.
• Something that's cold to the touch, and touching it feels good.

Note that something that "tastes good" is oishii 美味しい, not kimochi-ii.

Conjugation

Since kimochi-ii is an i-adjective, it can be conjugated like an i-adjective.

Kimochi-yokatta 気持ちよかった

The word kimochi-yokatta 気持ち

Manga:

Kids on the Slope

, Sakamichi no Apollon 坂道のアポロン (Chapter 2)

• karada ni ataru ame wa
  体に当たる雨は
  The rain [that] hit [my] body.
• omotteta yori
  思ってたより
  More than [I] thought.
• zutto
  ずっと
  (intensifier.)
• kimochi-yokatta-n-da
  気持ちよかったんだ
  Felt good.
• Stringed together:
• The rain [that] hit [my] body
  felt much better
  than [I] had thought.

Kimochi-yokunai 気持ちよくない

The word kimochi-yokunai 気持ち

And kimochi-yokunakatta 気持ちよくなかった means "didn't feel good." It's past negative.

Kimochi-yoku 気持ちよく

The word kimochi-yoku 気持ちkimochi-ii. It's used before a verb, when you're doing something that feels good to do.

Manga: Doraemon ドラえもん (Chapter 10)

• e wo kaiteiru no.
  絵をかいているの。
  Are [you] drawing a picture?
• うん、
  Yes,
• hisashiburi ni
  久しぶりに
  For the first time in a while
• kimochi-yoku
  kaketa.
  気持ちよくかけた。
  [I] was able to draw feeling good.
• i.e. for the first time in a while, he was able to enjoy himself drawing.
• kaketa 描けた
  Was able to draw.
  (past form of.)
• kakeru 描ける
  To be able to draw.
  (potential form of.)
• kaku 描く
  To draw.

Kimochi-yosa 気持ちよさ

The word kimochi-yosa 気持ちsa-form of kimochi-ii, which is the "-ness form." It means "good-feeling-ness," or "how good it feels."

• kono kimochi-yosa
  この気持ちよさ
  This good-feeling-ness. (that I'm feeling.)
  How good it feels [now].

Kimochi-yosasou 気持ちよさそう

The word kimochi-yosasou 気持ちkimochi-ii plus the sou suffix, which means "seems," so "seeming it's pleasant," or "seeming it feels good."

• kimochi-yosasou
  気持ちよさそう
  [That] looks like [it] feels good.
• kimochi-yosasou na kao
  気持ちよさそうな顔
  A face [that] looks like [it] feels good. (e.g. your expression under a kimochi-ii rain.)

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