Japanese i-adjective
hayai — early 早い
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 early hayai 早い | is not early hayakunai 早くない |
| Polite | hayai desu 早いです | hayakunai desu 早くないです | |
| Past | Plain | was early hayakatta 早かった | was not early hayakunakatta 早くなかった |
| Polite | hayakatta desu 早かったです | hayakunakatta desu 早くなかったです | |
| Presumptive | Plain | will probably be early hayai darō 早いだろう | hayakunai darō 早くないだろう |
| Polite | hayai deshō 早いでしょう | hayakunai deshō 早くないでしょう | |
| Conditional | Standard | if it is early hayakereba 早ければ | if it is not early hayakunakereba 早くなければ |
| Connecting form | Standard | hayakute 早くて | hayakunakute 早くなくて |
These conjugations are generated automatically and are intended as a learning guide. Check the natural usage in context when accuracy is important.