Japanese i-adjective
tsumaranai — uninteresting 詰らない
Explore the principal positive, negative, past, non-past and conditional forms of this Japanese adjective.
How i-adjectives conjugate
The final い changes to create negative, past and connecting forms. The adjective itself carries this grammatical information, so a separate verb is not required in the plain forms.
Conjugation table
The English glosses are approximate; the natural translation depends on the surrounding sentence.
| Form | Style | Positive | Negative |
|---|---|---|---|
| Present (non-past) | Plain | is uninteresting tsumaranai 詰らない | is not uninteresting tsumaranakunai 詰らなくない |
| Polite | tsumaranai desu 詰らないです | tsumaranakunai desu 詰らなくないです | |
| Past | Plain | was uninteresting tsumaranakatta 詰らなかった | was not uninteresting tsumaranakunakatta 詰らなくなかった |
| Polite | tsumaranakatta desu 詰らなかったです | tsumaranakunakatta desu 詰らなくなかったです | |
| Presumptive | Plain | will probably be uninteresting tsumaranai darō 詰らないだろう | tsumaranakunai darō 詰らなくないだろう |
| Polite | tsumaranai deshō 詰らないでしょう | tsumaranakunai deshō 詰らなくないでしょう | |
| Conditional | Standard | if it is uninteresting tsumaranakereba 詰らなければ | if it is not uninteresting tsumaranakunakereba 詰らなくなければ |
| Connecting form | Standard | tsumaranakute 詰らなくて | tsumaranakunakute 詰らなくなくて |
These conjugations are generated automatically and are intended as a learning guide. Check the natural usage in context when accuracy is important.