# ぽい
## Japanese
### Etymology 1

* Alternative spelling
* ポイ
Unknown. May be onomatopoeia.

#### Pronunciation

* (Tokyo) ぽい [póꜜì] (Atamadaka –)
* IPA: [po̞i]

#### Adverb

ぽい • (poi)
* lightly, carelessly, casually (also indicating something being thrown)
    屑(くず)箱(ばこ)へぽいと投(な)げた。
       Kuzubako e poi to nageta.
       He tossed it carelessly into the wastebasket.
* suddenly (also indicating movement away)
** 1813, 浮世床 (Ukiyodoko), Shikitei Sanba:
    うぬひとり口(ぐち)をきいてぽいと帰(かえ)ったぜ
       Unu hitoriguchi o kiite poi to kaetta ze
       When he heard your muttering he -- poof -- went back home.

##### Usage notes

Used with the particle と (to).

#### Noun

ぽい • (poi)
* the act of lightly throwing something: tossing, chucking, especially carelessly: littering
    タバコのぽいは止(や)めましょう。
       Tabako no poi wa yamemashō.
       Let's stop tossing cigarette butts. → Please don't litter.

##### Usage notes

Occasionally used on its own. More often used in compounds or as an adverb.

##### Derived terms

* ぽい捨(す)て (poi-sute): littering
* っぽい (ppoi)

#### Verb

ぽいする • (poi suru) transitive suru (stem ぽいし (poi shi), past ぽいした (poi shita))
* to throw away

##### Conjugation

Katsuyōkei ("stem forms") :
| Mizenkei ("imperfective") | ぽいし | poi shi |
| Ren’yōkei ("continuative") | ぽいし | poi shi |
| Shūshikei ("terminal") | ぽいする | poi suru |
| Rentaikei ("attributive") | ぽいする | poi suru |
| Kateikei ("hypothetical") | ぽいすれ | poi sure |
| Meireikei ("imperative") | ぽいせよ¹ ぽいしろ² | poi seyo¹ poi shiro² |
| Key constructions ||||
| Passive | ぽいされる | poi sareru |
| Causative | ぽいさせる ぽいさす | poi saseru poi sasu |
| Potential | ぽいできる | poi dekiru |
| Volitional | ぽいしよう | poi shiyō |
| Negative | ぽいしない | poi shinai |
| Negative continuative | ぽいせず | poi sezu |
| Formal | ぽいします | poi shimasu |
| Perfective | ぽいした | poi shita |
| Conjunctive | ぽいして | poi shite |
| Hypothetical conditional | ぽいすれば | poi sureba |
| ¹ Written imperative ² Spoken imperative ||||

##### Synonyms

* 捨(す)てる (suteru), 棄(す)てる (suteru)

### Etymology 2

Degrammaticalization of suffix っぽい (-ppoi, “-ish, -like”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [po̞i]

#### Adjective

ぽい • (poi) -i (adverbial ぽく (poku))
* (informal) resembling the real thing
    ちょっとぽい
       chotto poi
       kind of like it
    なんかぽくない？
       Nanka pokunai?
       It's similar, no?

##### Inflection

Stem forms :
| Imperfective (未然形) | ぽかろ | pokaro |
| Continuative (連用形) | ぽく | poku |
| Terminal (終止形) | ぽい | poi |
| Attributive (連体形) | ぽい | poi |
| Hypothetical (仮定形) | ぽけれ | pokere |
| Imperative (命令形) | ぽかれ | pokare |
| Key constructions ||||
| Informal negative | ぽくない | poku nai |
| Informal past | ぽかった | pokatta |
| Informal negative past | ぽくなかった | poku nakatta |
| Formal | ぽいです | poi desu |
| Formal negative | ぽくないです | poku nai desu |
| Formal past | ぽかったです | pokatta desu |
| Formal negative past | ぽくなかったです | poku nakatta desu |
| Conjunctive | ぽくて | pokute |
| Conditional | ぽければ | pokereba |
| Provisional | ぽかったら | pokattara |
| Volitional | ぽかろう | pokarō |
| Adverbial | ぽく | poku |
| Degree | ぽさ | posa |

##### Derived terms

* ぽさ (posa)

### References

* ↑ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN