Japanese i-adjective
mazui — bad tasting 不味い
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 bad tasting mazui 不味い | is not bad tasting mazukunai 不味くない |
| Polite | mazui desu 不味いです | mazukunai desu 不味くないです | |
| Past | Plain | was bad tasting mazukatta 不味かった | was not bad tasting mazukunakatta 不味くなかった |
| Polite | mazukatta desu 不味かったです | mazukunakatta desu 不味くなかったです | |
| Presumptive | Plain | will probably be bad tasting mazui darō 不味いだろう | mazukunai darō 不味くないだろう |
| Polite | mazui deshō 不味いでしょう | mazukunai deshō 不味くないでしょう | |
| Conditional | Standard | if it is bad tasting mazukereba 不味ければ | if it is not bad tasting mazukunakereba 不味くなければ |
| Connecting form | Standard | mazukute 不味くて | mazukunakute 不味くなくて |
These conjugations are generated automatically and are intended as a learning guide. Check the natural usage in context when accuracy is important.