待ち遠しい (machidooshii) conjugation
looking forward to
待ち遠しい (まちどおしい, machidooshii) 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 | 待ち遠しい machidooshii | 待ち遠しいです machidooshiidesu | The form you look up. Also the casual “is ~”. |
| Negative | 待ち遠しくない machidooshikunai | 待ち遠しくないです machidooshikunaidesu | “is not ~”. |
| Past | 待ち遠しかった machidooshikatta | 待ち遠しかったです machidooshikattadesu | “was ~”. |
| Past negative | 待ち遠しくなかった machidooshikunakatta | 待ち遠しくなかったです machidooshikunakattadesu | “was not ~”. |
| Te-form | 待ち遠しくて machidooshikute | — | Links to the next clause: “~ and …”. |
| Adverb | 待ち遠しく machidooshiku | — | Turns it into “~ly”, describing a verb. |
| Before a noun | 待ち遠しい〜 machidooshii〜 | — | How it attaches when it modifies a noun. |
| Conditional (~ば/なら) | 待ち遠しければ machidooshikereba | — | “if it is ~”. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 待ち遠しかったら machidooshikattara | — | “if / when it is ~”. The everyday conditional. |
| Become (~なる) | 待ち遠しくなる machidooshikunaru | 待ち遠しくなります machidooshikunarimasu | “becomes ~” — the change-of-state form. |
| Too much (~すぎる) | 待ち遠しすぎる machidooshisugiru | 待ち遠しすぎます machidooshisugimasu | “too ~”. |
| Looks ~ (~そう) | 待ち遠しそう machidooshisou | 待ち遠しそうです machidooshisoudesu | “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.