羨ましい (urayamashii) conjugation
envious, enviable
羨ましい (うらやましい, urayamashii) 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 | 羨ましい urayamashii | 羨ましいです urayamashiidesu | The form you look up. Also the casual “is ~”. |
| Negative | 羨ましくない urayamashikunai | 羨ましくないです urayamashikunaidesu | “is not ~”. |
| Past | 羨ましかった urayamashikatta | 羨ましかったです urayamashikattadesu | “was ~”. |
| Past negative | 羨ましくなかった urayamashikunakatta | 羨ましくなかったです urayamashikunakattadesu | “was not ~”. |
| Te-form | 羨ましくて urayamashikute | — | Links to the next clause: “~ and …”. |
| Adverb | 羨ましく urayamashiku | — | Turns it into “~ly”, describing a verb. |
| Before a noun | 羨ましい〜 urayamashii〜 | — | How it attaches when it modifies a noun. |
| Conditional (~ば/なら) | 羨ましければ urayamashikereba | — | “if it is ~”. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 羨ましかったら urayamashikattara | — | “if / when it is ~”. The everyday conditional. |
| Become (~なる) | 羨ましくなる urayamashikunaru | 羨ましくなります urayamashikunarimasu | “becomes ~” — the change-of-state form. |
| Too much (~すぎる) | 羨ましすぎる urayamashisugiru | 羨ましすぎます urayamashisugimasu | “too ~”. |
| Looks ~ (~そう) | 羨ましそう urayamashisou | 羨ましそうです urayamashisoudesu | “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.