情無い (nasakenai) conjugation
miserable, pitiable, shameful
情無い (なさけない, nasakenai) 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 | 情無い nasakenai | 情無いです nasakenaidesu | The form you look up. Also the casual “is ~”. |
| Negative | 情無くない nasakenakunai | 情無くないです nasakenakunaidesu | “is not ~”. |
| Past | 情無かった nasakenakatta | 情無かったです nasakenakattadesu | “was ~”. |
| Past negative | 情無くなかった nasakenakunakatta | 情無くなかったです nasakenakunakattadesu | “was not ~”. |
| Te-form | 情無くて nasakenakute | — | Links to the next clause: “~ and …”. |
| Adverb | 情無く nasakenaku | — | Turns it into “~ly”, describing a verb. |
| Before a noun | 情無い〜 nasakenai〜 | — | How it attaches when it modifies a noun. |
| Conditional (~ば/なら) | 情無ければ nasakenakereba | — | “if it is ~”. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 情無かったら nasakenakattara | — | “if / when it is ~”. The everyday conditional. |
| Become (~なる) | 情無くなる nasakenakunaru | 情無くなります nasakenakunarimasu | “becomes ~” — the change-of-state form. |
| Too much (~すぎる) | 情無すぎる nasakenasugiru | 情無すぎます nasakenasugimasu | “too ~”. |
| Looks ~ (~そう) | 情無そう nasakenasou | 情無そうです nasakenasoudesu | “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.