Hanamaruhanamaru

きつね

fox

kitsune

Frequency
#15,079

In a sentence

きつねfoxずるいcunning

Foxes are cunning

How it works

(topic) raises きつね (fox) as the topic — “as for the fox…”. The i-adjective ずるい (cunning) ends the sentence on its own, with no copula needed: in plain speech an i-adjective is already a complete predicate, so no (is) is added.