物足りない (monotarinai) conjugation
unsatisfied, unsatisfactory
物足りない (ものたりない, monotarinai) 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 | 物足りない monotarinai | 物足りないです monotarinaidesu | The form you look up. Also the casual “is ~”. |
| Negative | 物足りなくない monotarinakunai | 物足りなくないです monotarinakunaidesu | “is not ~”. |
| Past | 物足りなかった monotarinakatta | 物足りなかったです monotarinakattadesu | “was ~”. |
| Past negative | 物足りなくなかった monotarinakunakatta | 物足りなくなかったです monotarinakunakattadesu | “was not ~”. |
| Te-form | 物足りなくて monotarinakute | — | Links to the next clause: “~ and …”. |
| Adverb | 物足りなく monotarinaku | — | Turns it into “~ly”, describing a verb. |
| Before a noun | 物足りない〜 monotarinai〜 | — | How it attaches when it modifies a noun. |
| Conditional (~ば/なら) | 物足りなければ monotarinakereba | — | “if it is ~”. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 物足りなかったら monotarinakattara | — | “if / when it is ~”. The everyday conditional. |
| Become (~なる) | 物足りなくなる monotarinakunaru | 物足りなくなります monotarinakunarimasu | “becomes ~” — the change-of-state form. |
| Too much (~すぎる) | 物足りなすぎる monotarinasugiru | 物足りなすぎます monotarinasugimasu | “too ~”. |
| Looks ~ (~そう) | 物足りなそう monotarinasou | 物足りなそうです monotarinasoudesu | “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.