目覚しい (mezamashii) conjugation
brilliant, remarkable
目覚しい (めざましい, mezamashii) 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 | 目覚しい mezamashii | 目覚しいです mezamashiidesu | The form you look up. Also the casual “is ~”. |
| Negative | 目覚しくない mezamashikunai | 目覚しくないです mezamashikunaidesu | “is not ~”. |
| Past | 目覚しかった mezamashikatta | 目覚しかったです mezamashikattadesu | “was ~”. |
| Past negative | 目覚しくなかった mezamashikunakatta | 目覚しくなかったです mezamashikunakattadesu | “was not ~”. |
| Te-form | 目覚しくて mezamashikute | — | Links to the next clause: “~ and …”. |
| Adverb | 目覚しく mezamashiku | — | Turns it into “~ly”, describing a verb. |
| Before a noun | 目覚しい〜 mezamashii〜 | — | How it attaches when it modifies a noun. |
| Conditional (~ば/なら) | 目覚しければ mezamashikereba | — | “if it is ~”. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 目覚しかったら mezamashikattara | — | “if / when it is ~”. The everyday conditional. |
| Become (~なる) | 目覚しくなる mezamashikunaru | 目覚しくなります mezamashikunarimasu | “becomes ~” — the change-of-state form. |
| Too much (~すぎる) | 目覚しすぎる mezamashisugiru | 目覚しすぎます mezamashisugimasu | “too ~”. |
| Looks ~ (~そう) | 目覚しそう mezamashisou | 目覚しそうです mezamashisoudesu | “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.