涼しい (suzushii) conjugation
cool, refreshing (in reference to weather)
涼しい (すずしい, suzushii) 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 | 涼しい suzushii | 涼しいです suzushiidesu | The form you look up. Also the casual “is ~”. |
| Negative | 涼しくない suzushikunai | 涼しくないです suzushikunaidesu | “is not ~”. |
| Past | 涼しかった suzushikatta | 涼しかったです suzushikattadesu | “was ~”. |
| Past negative | 涼しくなかった suzushikunakatta | 涼しくなかったです suzushikunakattadesu | “was not ~”. |
| Te-form | 涼しくて suzushikute | — | Links to the next clause: “~ and …”. |
| Adverb | 涼しく suzushiku | — | Turns it into “~ly”, describing a verb. |
| Before a noun | 涼しい〜 suzushii〜 | — | How it attaches when it modifies a noun. |
| Conditional (~ば/なら) | 涼しければ suzushikereba | — | “if it is ~”. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 涼しかったら suzushikattara | — | “if / when it is ~”. The everyday conditional. |
| Become (~なる) | 涼しくなる suzushikunaru | 涼しくなります suzushikunarimasu | “becomes ~” — the change-of-state form. |
| Too much (~すぎる) | 涼しすぎる suzushisugiru | 涼しすぎます suzushisugimasu | “too ~”. |
| Looks ~ (~そう) | 涼しそう suzushisou | 涼しそうです suzushisoudesu | “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.