How to Say ‘I'll make it quieter’ in Japanese
小さくします
chiisaku shi masu
[chee-sah-koo]
💬 Usage Tip: [小さい] changes to [小さく] before [します] to mean "make it small/quiet." You can reuse this pattern with other adjectives: [長くします] "I'll make it longer."
Phrase Breakdown
小さく
chiisaku
[chee-sah-koo]
quietly; lower (the volume) (adverbial form)
小さい becomes 小さく before a verb. With 音を小さくする, it means “to turn the sound down.”
今から音を小さくしますね。
I'll turn the sound down now.
し
shi
ます
masu
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