憎らしい (nikurashii) conjugation
odious, hateful
憎らしい (にくらしい, nikurashii) 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 | 憎らしい nikurashii | 憎らしいです nikurashiidesu | The form you look up. Also the casual “is ~”. |
| Negative | 憎らしくない nikurashikunai | 憎らしくないです nikurashikunaidesu | “is not ~”. |
| Past | 憎らしかった nikurashikatta | 憎らしかったです nikurashikattadesu | “was ~”. |
| Past negative | 憎らしくなかった nikurashikunakatta | 憎らしくなかったです nikurashikunakattadesu | “was not ~”. |
| Te-form | 憎らしくて nikurashikute | — | Links to the next clause: “~ and …”. |
| Adverb | 憎らしく nikurashiku | — | Turns it into “~ly”, describing a verb. |
| Before a noun | 憎らしい〜 nikurashii〜 | — | How it attaches when it modifies a noun. |
| Conditional (~ば/なら) | 憎らしければ nikurashikereba | — | “if it is ~”. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 憎らしかったら nikurashikattara | — | “if / when it is ~”. The everyday conditional. |
| Become (~なる) | 憎らしくなる nikurashikunaru | 憎らしくなります nikurashikunarimasu | “becomes ~” — the change-of-state form. |
| Too much (~すぎる) | 憎らしすぎる nikurashisugiru | 憎らしすぎます nikurashisugimasu | “too ~”. |
| Looks ~ (~そう) | 憎らしそう nikurashisou | 憎らしそうです nikurashisoudesu | “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.