慌ただしい (awatadashii) conjugation
busy, hurried
慌ただしい (あわただしい, awatadashii) 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 | 慌ただしい awatadashii | 慌ただしいです awatadashiidesu | The form you look up. Also the casual “is ~”. |
| Negative | 慌ただしくない awatadashikunai | 慌ただしくないです awatadashikunaidesu | “is not ~”. |
| Past | 慌ただしかった awatadashikatta | 慌ただしかったです awatadashikattadesu | “was ~”. |
| Past negative | 慌ただしくなかった awatadashikunakatta | 慌ただしくなかったです awatadashikunakattadesu | “was not ~”. |
| Te-form | 慌ただしくて awatadashikute | — | Links to the next clause: “~ and …”. |
| Adverb | 慌ただしく awatadashiku | — | Turns it into “~ly”, describing a verb. |
| Before a noun | 慌ただしい〜 awatadashii〜 | — | How it attaches when it modifies a noun. |
| Conditional (~ば/なら) | 慌ただしければ awatadashikereba | — | “if it is ~”. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 慌ただしかったら awatadashikattara | — | “if / when it is ~”. The everyday conditional. |
| Become (~なる) | 慌ただしくなる awatadashikunaru | 慌ただしくなります awatadashikunarimasu | “becomes ~” — the change-of-state form. |
| Too much (~すぎる) | 慌ただしすぎる awatadashisugiru | 慌ただしすぎます awatadashisugimasu | “too ~”. |
| Looks ~ (~そう) | 慌ただしそう awatadashisou | 慌ただしそうです awatadashisoudesu | “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.