新しい

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 新しい(あたらしい) is an i-adjective for something new or different from what came before.
• Basic usage: It modifies newly bought furniture or a new method being tried.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Before a noun and in conjugation
  • It directly modifies a noun in 新しい机; its negative is 新しくない and its past form is 新しかった.
• Form compared with 新たな
  • 新たな方法 also means a new method, but uses the form 新たな before the noun.