煙たい (kemutai) conjugation
smoky, feeling awkward
煙たい (けむたい, kemutai) 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 | 煙たい kemutai | 煙たいです kemutaidesu | The form you look up. Also the casual “is ~”. |
| Negative | 煙たくない kemutakunai | 煙たくないです kemutakunaidesu | “is not ~”. |
| Past | 煙たかった kemutakatta | 煙たかったです kemutakattadesu | “was ~”. |
| Past negative | 煙たくなかった kemutakunakatta | 煙たくなかったです kemutakunakattadesu | “was not ~”. |
| Te-form | 煙たくて kemutakute | — | Links to the next clause: “~ and …”. |
| Adverb | 煙たく kemutaku | — | Turns it into “~ly”, describing a verb. |
| Before a noun | 煙たい〜 kemutai〜 | — | How it attaches when it modifies a noun. |
| Conditional (~ば/なら) | 煙たければ kemutakereba | — | “if it is ~”. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 煙たかったら kemutakattara | — | “if / when it is ~”. The everyday conditional. |
| Become (~なる) | 煙たくなる kemutakunaru | 煙たくなります kemutakunarimasu | “becomes ~” — the change-of-state form. |
| Too much (~すぎる) | 煙たすぎる kemutasugiru | 煙たすぎます kemutasugimasu | “too ~”. |
| Looks ~ (~そう) | 煙たそう kemutasou | 煙たそうです kemutasoudesu | “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.