遠い (tooi) conjugation
far (away), distant
遠い (とおい, tooi) 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 | 遠い tooi | 遠いです tooidesu | The form you look up. Also the casual “is ~”. |
| Negative | 遠くない tookunai | 遠くないです tookunaidesu | “is not ~”. |
| Past | 遠かった tookatta | 遠かったです tookattadesu | “was ~”. |
| Past negative | 遠くなかった tookunakatta | 遠くなかったです tookunakattadesu | “was not ~”. |
| Te-form | 遠くて tookute | — | Links to the next clause: “~ and …”. |
| Adverb | 遠く tooku | — | Turns it into “~ly”, describing a verb. |
| Before a noun | 遠い〜 tooi〜 | — | How it attaches when it modifies a noun. |
| Conditional (~ば/なら) | 遠ければ tookereba | — | “if it is ~”. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 遠かったら tookattara | — | “if / when it is ~”. The everyday conditional. |
| Become (~なる) | 遠くなる tookunaru | 遠くなります tookunarimasu | “becomes ~” — the change-of-state form. |
| Too much (~すぎる) | 遠すぎる toosugiru | 遠すぎます toosugimasu | “too ~”. |
| Looks ~ (~そう) | 遠そう toosou | 遠そうです toosoudesu | “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.