Japanese i-adjective
tanoshii — enjoyable, fun 楽しい
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 enjoyable, fun tanoshii 楽しい | is not enjoyable, fun tanoshikunai 楽しくない |
| Polite | tanoshii desu 楽しいです | tanoshikunai desu 楽しくないです | |
| Past | Plain | was enjoyable, fun tanoshikatta 楽しかった | was not enjoyable, fun tanoshikunakatta 楽しくなかった |
| Polite | tanoshikatta desu 楽しかったです | tanoshikunakatta desu 楽しくなかったです | |
| Presumptive | Plain | will probably be enjoyable, fun tanoshii darō 楽しいだろう | tanoshikunai darō 楽しくないだろう |
| Polite | tanoshii deshō 楽しいでしょう | tanoshikunai deshō 楽しくないでしょう | |
| Conditional | Standard | if it is enjoyable, fun tanoshikereba 楽しければ | if it is not enjoyable, fun tanoshikunakereba 楽しくなければ |
| Connecting form | Standard | tanoshikute 楽しくて | tanoshikunakute 楽しくなくて |
These conjugations are generated automatically and are intended as a learning guide. Check the natural usage in context when accuracy is important.