青白い (aojiroi) conjugation
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青白い (あおじろい, aojiroi) is an i-adjective. I-adjectives carry their own tense: drop the final い and the endings attach straight to the stem. No だ, no です needed to make a complete sentence.
Conjugation table
| Form | Plain (casual) | Polite (~です) | When you use it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dictionary / plain | 青白い aojiroi | 青白いです aojiroidesu | The form you look up. Also the casual “is ~”. |
| Negative | 青白くない aojirokunai | 青白くないです aojirokunaidesu | “is not ~”. |
| Past | 青白かった aojirokatta | 青白かったです aojirokattadesu | “was ~”. |
| Past negative | 青白くなかった aojirokunakatta | 青白くなかったです aojirokunakattadesu | “was not ~”. |
| Te-form | 青白くて aojirokute | — | Links to the next clause: “~ and …”. |
| Adverb | 青白く aojiroku | — | Turns it into “~ly”, describing a verb. |
| Before a noun | 青白い〜 aojiroi〜 | — | How it attaches when it modifies a noun. |
| Conditional (~ば/なら) | 青白ければ aojirokereba | — | “if it is ~”. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 青白かったら aojirokattara | — | “if / when it is ~”. The everyday conditional. |
| Become (~なる) | 青白くなる aojirokunaru | 青白くなります aojirokunarimasu | “becomes ~” — the change-of-state form. |
| Too much (~すぎる) | 青白すぎる aojirosugiru | 青白すぎます aojirosugimasu | “too ~”. |
| Looks ~ (~そう) | 青白そう aojirosou | 青白そうです aojirosoudesu | “looks / seems ~” from appearance. |
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Why it conjugates this way
I-adjectives carry their own tense: drop the final い and the endings attach straight to the stem. No だ, no です needed to make a complete sentence.
See the full rules in the adjective conjugation guide.