悩ましい (nayamashii) conjugation
seductive, melancholy, languid
悩ましい (なやましい, nayamashii) 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 | 悩ましい nayamashii | 悩ましいです nayamashiidesu | The form you look up. Also the casual “is ~”. |
| Negative | 悩ましくない nayamashikunai | 悩ましくないです nayamashikunaidesu | “is not ~”. |
| Past | 悩ましかった nayamashikatta | 悩ましかったです nayamashikattadesu | “was ~”. |
| Past negative | 悩ましくなかった nayamashikunakatta | 悩ましくなかったです nayamashikunakattadesu | “was not ~”. |
| Te-form | 悩ましくて nayamashikute | — | Links to the next clause: “~ and …”. |
| Adverb | 悩ましく nayamashiku | — | Turns it into “~ly”, describing a verb. |
| Before a noun | 悩ましい〜 nayamashii〜 | — | How it attaches when it modifies a noun. |
| Conditional (~ば/なら) | 悩ましければ nayamashikereba | — | “if it is ~”. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 悩ましかったら nayamashikattara | — | “if / when it is ~”. The everyday conditional. |
| Become (~なる) | 悩ましくなる nayamashikunaru | 悩ましくなります nayamashikunarimasu | “becomes ~” — the change-of-state form. |
| Too much (~すぎる) | 悩ましすぎる nayamashisugiru | 悩ましすぎます nayamashisugimasu | “too ~”. |
| Looks ~ (~そう) | 悩ましそう nayamashisou | 悩ましそうです nayamashisoudesu | “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.