塩辛い (shiokarai) conjugation
salty (taste)
塩辛い (しおからい, shiokarai) 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 | 塩辛い shiokarai | 塩辛いです shiokaraidesu | The form you look up. Also the casual “is ~”. |
| Negative | 塩辛くない shiokarakunai | 塩辛くないです shiokarakunaidesu | “is not ~”. |
| Past | 塩辛かった shiokarakatta | 塩辛かったです shiokarakattadesu | “was ~”. |
| Past negative | 塩辛くなかった shiokarakunakatta | 塩辛くなかったです shiokarakunakattadesu | “was not ~”. |
| Te-form | 塩辛くて shiokarakute | — | Links to the next clause: “~ and …”. |
| Adverb | 塩辛く shiokaraku | — | Turns it into “~ly”, describing a verb. |
| Before a noun | 塩辛い〜 shiokarai〜 | — | How it attaches when it modifies a noun. |
| Conditional (~ば/なら) | 塩辛ければ shiokarakereba | — | “if it is ~”. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 塩辛かったら shiokarakattara | — | “if / when it is ~”. The everyday conditional. |
| Become (~なる) | 塩辛くなる shiokarakunaru | 塩辛くなります shiokarakunarimasu | “becomes ~” — the change-of-state form. |
| Too much (~すぎる) | 塩辛すぎる shiokarasugiru | 塩辛すぎます shiokarasugimasu | “too ~”. |
| Looks ~ (~そう) | 塩辛そう shiokarasou | 塩辛そうです shiokarasoudesu | “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.