恥ずかしい (hazukashii) conjugation
ashamed, embarrassed
恥ずかしい (はずかしい, hazukashii) 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 | 恥ずかしい hazukashii | 恥ずかしいです hazukashiidesu | The form you look up. Also the casual “is ~”. |
| Negative | 恥ずかしくない hazukashikunai | 恥ずかしくないです hazukashikunaidesu | “is not ~”. |
| Past | 恥ずかしかった hazukashikatta | 恥ずかしかったです hazukashikattadesu | “was ~”. |
| Past negative | 恥ずかしくなかった hazukashikunakatta | 恥ずかしくなかったです hazukashikunakattadesu | “was not ~”. |
| Te-form | 恥ずかしくて hazukashikute | — | Links to the next clause: “~ and …”. |
| Adverb | 恥ずかしく hazukashiku | — | Turns it into “~ly”, describing a verb. |
| Before a noun | 恥ずかしい〜 hazukashii〜 | — | How it attaches when it modifies a noun. |
| Conditional (~ば/なら) | 恥ずかしければ hazukashikereba | — | “if it is ~”. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 恥ずかしかったら hazukashikattara | — | “if / when it is ~”. The everyday conditional. |
| Become (~なる) | 恥ずかしくなる hazukashikunaru | 恥ずかしくなります hazukashikunarimasu | “becomes ~” — the change-of-state form. |
| Too much (~すぎる) | 恥ずかしすぎる hazukashisugiru | 恥ずかしすぎます hazukashisugimasu | “too ~”. |
| Looks ~ (~そう) | 恥ずかしそう hazukashisou | 恥ずかしそうです hazukashisoudesu | “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.