激しい (hageshii) conjugation
violent, vehement, intense
激しい (はげしい, hageshii) 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 | 激しい hageshii | 激しいです hageshiidesu | The form you look up. Also the casual “is ~”. |
| Negative | 激しくない hageshikunai | 激しくないです hageshikunaidesu | “is not ~”. |
| Past | 激しかった hageshikatta | 激しかったです hageshikattadesu | “was ~”. |
| Past negative | 激しくなかった hageshikunakatta | 激しくなかったです hageshikunakattadesu | “was not ~”. |
| Te-form | 激しくて hageshikute | — | Links to the next clause: “~ and …”. |
| Adverb | 激しく hageshiku | — | Turns it into “~ly”, describing a verb. |
| Before a noun | 激しい〜 hageshii〜 | — | How it attaches when it modifies a noun. |
| Conditional (~ば/なら) | 激しければ hageshikereba | — | “if it is ~”. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 激しかったら hageshikattara | — | “if / when it is ~”. The everyday conditional. |
| Become (~なる) | 激しくなる hageshikunaru | 激しくなります hageshikunarimasu | “becomes ~” — the change-of-state form. |
| Too much (~すぎる) | 激しすぎる hageshisugiru | 激しすぎます hageshisugimasu | “too ~”. |
| Looks ~ (~そう) | 激しそう hageshisou | 激しそうです hageshisoudesu | “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.