Japanese i-adjective
yasashii — gentle 優しい
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 gentle yasashii 優しい | is not gentle yasashikunai 優しくない |
| Polite | yasashii desu 優しいです | yasashikunai desu 優しくないです | |
| Past | Plain | was gentle yasashikatta 優しかった | was not gentle yasashikunakatta 優しくなかった |
| Polite | yasashikatta desu 優しかったです | yasashikunakatta desu 優しくなかったです | |
| Presumptive | Plain | will probably be gentle yasashii darō 優しいだろう | yasashikunai darō 優しくないだろう |
| Polite | yasashii deshō 優しいでしょう | yasashikunai deshō 優しくないでしょう | |
| Conditional | Standard | if it is gentle yasashikereba 優しければ | if it is not gentle yasashikunakereba 優しくなければ |
| Connecting form | Standard | yasashikute 優しくて | yasashikunakute 優しくなくて |
These conjugations are generated automatically and are intended as a learning guide. Check the natural usage in context when accuracy is important.