華々しい (hanabanashii) conjugation
brilliant, magnificent, spectacular
華々しい (はなばなしい, hanabanashii) 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 | 華々しい hanabanashii | 華々しいです hanabanashiidesu | The form you look up. Also the casual “is ~”. |
| Negative | 華々しくない hanabanashikunai | 華々しくないです hanabanashikunaidesu | “is not ~”. |
| Past | 華々しかった hanabanashikatta | 華々しかったです hanabanashikattadesu | “was ~”. |
| Past negative | 華々しくなかった hanabanashikunakatta | 華々しくなかったです hanabanashikunakattadesu | “was not ~”. |
| Te-form | 華々しくて hanabanashikute | — | Links to the next clause: “~ and …”. |
| Adverb | 華々しく hanabanashiku | — | Turns it into “~ly”, describing a verb. |
| Before a noun | 華々しい〜 hanabanashii〜 | — | How it attaches when it modifies a noun. |
| Conditional (~ば/なら) | 華々しければ hanabanashikereba | — | “if it is ~”. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 華々しかったら hanabanashikattara | — | “if / when it is ~”. The everyday conditional. |
| Become (~なる) | 華々しくなる hanabanashikunaru | 華々しくなります hanabanashikunarimasu | “becomes ~” — the change-of-state form. |
| Too much (~すぎる) | 華々しすぎる hanabanashisugiru | 華々しすぎます hanabanashisugimasu | “too ~”. |
| Looks ~ (~そう) | 華々しそう hanabanashisou | 華々しそうです hanabanashisoudesu | “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.