卑しい (iyashii) conjugation
greedy, vulgar, shabby
卑しい (いやしい, iyashii) 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 | 卑しい iyashii | 卑しいです iyashiidesu | The form you look up. Also the casual “is ~”. |
| Negative | 卑しくない iyashikunai | 卑しくないです iyashikunaidesu | “is not ~”. |
| Past | 卑しかった iyashikatta | 卑しかったです iyashikattadesu | “was ~”. |
| Past negative | 卑しくなかった iyashikunakatta | 卑しくなかったです iyashikunakattadesu | “was not ~”. |
| Te-form | 卑しくて iyashikute | — | Links to the next clause: “~ and …”. |
| Adverb | 卑しく iyashiku | — | Turns it into “~ly”, describing a verb. |
| Before a noun | 卑しい〜 iyashii〜 | — | How it attaches when it modifies a noun. |
| Conditional (~ば/なら) | 卑しければ iyashikereba | — | “if it is ~”. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 卑しかったら iyashikattara | — | “if / when it is ~”. The everyday conditional. |
| Become (~なる) | 卑しくなる iyashikunaru | 卑しくなります iyashikunarimasu | “becomes ~” — the change-of-state form. |
| Too much (~すぎる) | 卑しすぎる iyashisugiru | 卑しすぎます iyashisugimasu | “too ~”. |
| Looks ~ (~そう) | 卑しそう iyashisou | 卑しそうです iyashisoudesu | “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.