可愛らしい (kawairashii) conjugation
lovely, sweet
可愛らしい (かわいらしい, kawairashii) 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 | 可愛らしい kawairashii | 可愛らしいです kawairashiidesu | The form you look up. Also the casual “is ~”. |
| Negative | 可愛らしくない kawairashikunai | 可愛らしくないです kawairashikunaidesu | “is not ~”. |
| Past | 可愛らしかった kawairashikatta | 可愛らしかったです kawairashikattadesu | “was ~”. |
| Past negative | 可愛らしくなかった kawairashikunakatta | 可愛らしくなかったです kawairashikunakattadesu | “was not ~”. |
| Te-form | 可愛らしくて kawairashikute | — | Links to the next clause: “~ and …”. |
| Adverb | 可愛らしく kawairashiku | — | Turns it into “~ly”, describing a verb. |
| Before a noun | 可愛らしい〜 kawairashii〜 | — | How it attaches when it modifies a noun. |
| Conditional (~ば/なら) | 可愛らしければ kawairashikereba | — | “if it is ~”. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 可愛らしかったら kawairashikattara | — | “if / when it is ~”. The everyday conditional. |
| Become (~なる) | 可愛らしくなる kawairashikunaru | 可愛らしくなります kawairashikunarimasu | “becomes ~” — the change-of-state form. |
| Too much (~すぎる) | 可愛らしすぎる kawairashisugiru | 可愛らしすぎます kawairashisugimasu | “too ~”. |
| Looks ~ (~そう) | 可愛らしそう kawairashisou | 可愛らしそうです kawairashisoudesu | “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.