見苦しい (migurushii) conjugation
unsightly, ugly
見苦しい (みぐるしい, migurushii) 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 | 見苦しい migurushii | 見苦しいです migurushiidesu | The form you look up. Also the casual “is ~”. |
| Negative | 見苦しくない migurushikunai | 見苦しくないです migurushikunaidesu | “is not ~”. |
| Past | 見苦しかった migurushikatta | 見苦しかったです migurushikattadesu | “was ~”. |
| Past negative | 見苦しくなかった migurushikunakatta | 見苦しくなかったです migurushikunakattadesu | “was not ~”. |
| Te-form | 見苦しくて migurushikute | — | Links to the next clause: “~ and …”. |
| Adverb | 見苦しく migurushiku | — | Turns it into “~ly”, describing a verb. |
| Before a noun | 見苦しい〜 migurushii〜 | — | How it attaches when it modifies a noun. |
| Conditional (~ば/なら) | 見苦しければ migurushikereba | — | “if it is ~”. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 見苦しかったら migurushikattara | — | “if / when it is ~”. The everyday conditional. |
| Become (~なる) | 見苦しくなる migurushikunaru | 見苦しくなります migurushikunarimasu | “becomes ~” — the change-of-state form. |
| Too much (~すぎる) | 見苦しすぎる migurushisugiru | 見苦しすぎます migurushisugimasu | “too ~”. |
| Looks ~ (~そう) | 見苦しそう migurushisou | 見苦しそうです migurushisoudesu | “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.