親しい (shitashii) conjugation
intimate, close (e.g., friend)
親しい (したしい, shitashii) 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 | 親しい shitashii | 親しいです shitashiidesu | The form you look up. Also the casual “is ~”. |
| Negative | 親しくない shitashikunai | 親しくないです shitashikunaidesu | “is not ~”. |
| Past | 親しかった shitashikatta | 親しかったです shitashikattadesu | “was ~”. |
| Past negative | 親しくなかった shitashikunakatta | 親しくなかったです shitashikunakattadesu | “was not ~”. |
| Te-form | 親しくて shitashikute | — | Links to the next clause: “~ and …”. |
| Adverb | 親しく shitashiku | — | Turns it into “~ly”, describing a verb. |
| Before a noun | 親しい〜 shitashii〜 | — | How it attaches when it modifies a noun. |
| Conditional (~ば/なら) | 親しければ shitashikereba | — | “if it is ~”. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 親しかったら shitashikattara | — | “if / when it is ~”. The everyday conditional. |
| Become (~なる) | 親しくなる shitashikunaru | 親しくなります shitashikunarimasu | “becomes ~” — the change-of-state form. |
| Too much (~すぎる) | 親しすぎる shitashisugiru | 親しすぎます shitashisugimasu | “too ~”. |
| Looks ~ (~そう) | 親しそう shitashisou | 親しそうです shitashisoudesu | “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.