紛らわしい (magirawashii) conjugation
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紛らわしい (まぎらわしい, magirawashii) 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 | 紛らわしい magirawashii | 紛らわしいです magirawashiidesu | The form you look up. Also the casual “is ~”. |
| Negative | 紛らわしくない magirawashikunai | 紛らわしくないです magirawashikunaidesu | “is not ~”. |
| Past | 紛らわしかった magirawashikatta | 紛らわしかったです magirawashikattadesu | “was ~”. |
| Past negative | 紛らわしくなかった magirawashikunakatta | 紛らわしくなかったです magirawashikunakattadesu | “was not ~”. |
| Te-form | 紛らわしくて magirawashikute | — | Links to the next clause: “~ and …”. |
| Adverb | 紛らわしく magirawashiku | — | Turns it into “~ly”, describing a verb. |
| Before a noun | 紛らわしい〜 magirawashii〜 | — | How it attaches when it modifies a noun. |
| Conditional (~ば/なら) | 紛らわしければ magirawashikereba | — | “if it is ~”. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 紛らわしかったら magirawashikattara | — | “if / when it is ~”. The everyday conditional. |
| Become (~なる) | 紛らわしくなる magirawashikunaru | 紛らわしくなります magirawashikunarimasu | “becomes ~” — the change-of-state form. |
| Too much (~すぎる) | 紛らわしすぎる magirawashisugiru | 紛らわしすぎます magirawashisugimasu | “too ~”. |
| Looks ~ (~そう) | 紛らわしそう magirawashisou | 紛らわしそうです magirawashisoudesu | “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.