欲しい (hoshii) conjugation
to want, in need of
欲しい (ほしい, hoshii) 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 | 欲しい hoshii | 欲しいです hoshiidesu | The form you look up. Also the casual “is ~”. |
| Negative | 欲しくない hoshikunai | 欲しくないです hoshikunaidesu | “is not ~”. |
| Past | 欲しかった hoshikatta | 欲しかったです hoshikattadesu | “was ~”. |
| Past negative | 欲しくなかった hoshikunakatta | 欲しくなかったです hoshikunakattadesu | “was not ~”. |
| Te-form | 欲しくて hoshikute | — | Links to the next clause: “~ and …”. |
| Adverb | 欲しく hoshiku | — | Turns it into “~ly”, describing a verb. |
| Before a noun | 欲しい〜 hoshii〜 | — | How it attaches when it modifies a noun. |
| Conditional (~ば/なら) | 欲しければ hoshikereba | — | “if it is ~”. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 欲しかったら hoshikattara | — | “if / when it is ~”. The everyday conditional. |
| Become (~なる) | 欲しくなる hoshikunaru | 欲しくなります hoshikunarimasu | “becomes ~” — the change-of-state form. |
| Too much (~すぎる) | 欲しすぎる hoshisugiru | 欲しすぎます hoshisugimasu | “too ~”. |
| Looks ~ (~そう) | 欲しそう hoshisou | 欲しそうです hoshisoudesu | “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.