名高い (nadakai) conjugation
famous, celebrated, well-known
名高い (なだかい, nadakai) 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 | 名高い nadakai | 名高いです nadakaidesu | The form you look up. Also the casual “is ~”. |
| Negative | 名高くない nadakakunai | 名高くないです nadakakunaidesu | “is not ~”. |
| Past | 名高かった nadakakatta | 名高かったです nadakakattadesu | “was ~”. |
| Past negative | 名高くなかった nadakakunakatta | 名高くなかったです nadakakunakattadesu | “was not ~”. |
| Te-form | 名高くて nadakakute | — | Links to the next clause: “~ and …”. |
| Adverb | 名高く nadakaku | — | Turns it into “~ly”, describing a verb. |
| Before a noun | 名高い〜 nadakai〜 | — | How it attaches when it modifies a noun. |
| Conditional (~ば/なら) | 名高ければ nadakakereba | — | “if it is ~”. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 名高かったら nadakakattara | — | “if / when it is ~”. The everyday conditional. |
| Become (~なる) | 名高くなる nadakakunaru | 名高くなります nadakakunarimasu | “becomes ~” — the change-of-state form. |
| Too much (~すぎる) | 名高すぎる nadakasugiru | 名高すぎます nadakasugimasu | “too ~”. |
| Looks ~ (~そう) | 名高そう nadakasou | 名高そうです nadakasoudesu | “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.