生臭い (namagusai) conjugation
smelling of fish or blood, fish or meat
生臭い (なまぐさい, namagusai) 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 | 生臭い namagusai | 生臭いです namagusaidesu | The form you look up. Also the casual “is ~”. |
| Negative | 生臭くない namagusakunai | 生臭くないです namagusakunaidesu | “is not ~”. |
| Past | 生臭かった namagusakatta | 生臭かったです namagusakattadesu | “was ~”. |
| Past negative | 生臭くなかった namagusakunakatta | 生臭くなかったです namagusakunakattadesu | “was not ~”. |
| Te-form | 生臭くて namagusakute | — | Links to the next clause: “~ and …”. |
| Adverb | 生臭く namagusaku | — | Turns it into “~ly”, describing a verb. |
| Before a noun | 生臭い〜 namagusai〜 | — | How it attaches when it modifies a noun. |
| Conditional (~ば/なら) | 生臭ければ namagusakereba | — | “if it is ~”. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 生臭かったら namagusakattara | — | “if / when it is ~”. The everyday conditional. |
| Become (~なる) | 生臭くなる namagusakunaru | 生臭くなります namagusakunarimasu | “becomes ~” — the change-of-state form. |
| Too much (~すぎる) | 生臭すぎる namagusasugiru | 生臭すぎます namagusasugimasu | “too ~”. |
| Looks ~ (~そう) | 生臭そう namagusasou | 生臭そうです namagusasoudesu | “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.