浅い (asai) conjugation
shallow, superficial
浅い (あさい, asai) 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 | 浅い asai | 浅いです asaidesu | The form you look up. Also the casual “is ~”. |
| Negative | 浅くない asakunai | 浅くないです asakunaidesu | “is not ~”. |
| Past | 浅かった asakatta | 浅かったです asakattadesu | “was ~”. |
| Past negative | 浅くなかった asakunakatta | 浅くなかったです asakunakattadesu | “was not ~”. |
| Te-form | 浅くて asakute | — | Links to the next clause: “~ and …”. |
| Adverb | 浅く asaku | — | Turns it into “~ly”, describing a verb. |
| Before a noun | 浅い〜 asai〜 | — | How it attaches when it modifies a noun. |
| Conditional (~ば/なら) | 浅ければ asakereba | — | “if it is ~”. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 浅かったら asakattara | — | “if / when it is ~”. The everyday conditional. |
| Become (~なる) | 浅くなる asakunaru | 浅くなります asakunarimasu | “becomes ~” — the change-of-state form. |
| Too much (~すぎる) | 浅すぎる asasugiru | 浅すぎます asasugimasu | “too ~”. |
| Looks ~ (~そう) | 浅そう asasou | 浅そうです asasoudesu | “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.