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 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.