等しい (hitoshii) conjugation
equal
等しい (ひとしい, hitoshii) 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 | 等しい hitoshii | 等しいです hitoshiidesu | The form you look up. Also the casual “is ~”. |
| Negative | 等しくない hitoshikunai | 等しくないです hitoshikunaidesu | “is not ~”. |
| Past | 等しかった hitoshikatta | 等しかったです hitoshikattadesu | “was ~”. |
| Past negative | 等しくなかった hitoshikunakatta | 等しくなかったです hitoshikunakattadesu | “was not ~”. |
| Te-form | 等しくて hitoshikute | — | Links to the next clause: “~ and …”. |
| Adverb | 等しく hitoshiku | — | Turns it into “~ly”, describing a verb. |
| Before a noun | 等しい〜 hitoshii〜 | — | How it attaches when it modifies a noun. |
| Conditional (~ば/なら) | 等しければ hitoshikereba | — | “if it is ~”. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 等しかったら hitoshikattara | — | “if / when it is ~”. The everyday conditional. |
| Become (~なる) | 等しくなる hitoshikunaru | 等しくなります hitoshikunarimasu | “becomes ~” — the change-of-state form. |
| Too much (~すぎる) | 等しすぎる hitoshisugiru | 等しすぎます hitoshisugimasu | “too ~”. |
| Looks ~ (~そう) | 等しそう hitoshisou | 等しそうです hitoshisoudesu | “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.