浅ましい (asamashii) conjugation
shameful, mean, despicable
浅ましい (あさましい, asamashii) 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 | 浅ましい asamashii | 浅ましいです asamashiidesu | The form you look up. Also the casual “is ~”. |
| Negative | 浅ましくない asamashikunai | 浅ましくないです asamashikunaidesu | “is not ~”. |
| Past | 浅ましかった asamashikatta | 浅ましかったです asamashikattadesu | “was ~”. |
| Past negative | 浅ましくなかった asamashikunakatta | 浅ましくなかったです asamashikunakattadesu | “was not ~”. |
| Te-form | 浅ましくて asamashikute | — | Links to the next clause: “~ and …”. |
| Adverb | 浅ましく asamashiku | — | Turns it into “~ly”, describing a verb. |
| Before a noun | 浅ましい〜 asamashii〜 | — | How it attaches when it modifies a noun. |
| Conditional (~ば/なら) | 浅ましければ asamashikereba | — | “if it is ~”. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 浅ましかったら asamashikattara | — | “if / when it is ~”. The everyday conditional. |
| Become (~なる) | 浅ましくなる asamashikunaru | 浅ましくなります asamashikunarimasu | “becomes ~” — the change-of-state form. |
| Too much (~すぎる) | 浅ましすぎる asamashisugiru | 浅ましすぎます asamashisugimasu | “too ~”. |
| Looks ~ (~そう) | 浅ましそう asamashisou | 浅ましそうです asamashisoudesu | “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.