若々しい (wakawakashii) conjugation
youthful, young
若々しい (わかわかしい, wakawakashii) 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 | 若々しい wakawakashii | 若々しいです wakawakashiidesu | The form you look up. Also the casual “is ~”. |
| Negative | 若々しくない wakawakashikunai | 若々しくないです wakawakashikunaidesu | “is not ~”. |
| Past | 若々しかった wakawakashikatta | 若々しかったです wakawakashikattadesu | “was ~”. |
| Past negative | 若々しくなかった wakawakashikunakatta | 若々しくなかったです wakawakashikunakattadesu | “was not ~”. |
| Te-form | 若々しくて wakawakashikute | — | Links to the next clause: “~ and …”. |
| Adverb | 若々しく wakawakashiku | — | Turns it into “~ly”, describing a verb. |
| Before a noun | 若々しい〜 wakawakashii〜 | — | How it attaches when it modifies a noun. |
| Conditional (~ば/なら) | 若々しければ wakawakashikereba | — | “if it is ~”. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 若々しかったら wakawakashikattara | — | “if / when it is ~”. The everyday conditional. |
| Become (~なる) | 若々しくなる wakawakashikunaru | 若々しくなります wakawakashikunarimasu | “becomes ~” — the change-of-state form. |
| Too much (~すぎる) | 若々しすぎる wakawakashisugiru | 若々しすぎます wakawakashisugimasu | “too ~”. |
| Looks ~ (~そう) | 若々しそう wakawakashisou | 若々しそうです wakawakashisoudesu | “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.