安っぽい (yasuppoi) conjugation
cheap-looking, tawdry
安っぽい (やすっぽい, yasuppoi) 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 | 安っぽい yasuppoi | 安っぽいです yasuppoidesu | The form you look up. Also the casual “is ~”. |
| Negative | 安っぽくない yasuppokunai | 安っぽくないです yasuppokunaidesu | “is not ~”. |
| Past | 安っぽかった yasuppokatta | 安っぽかったです yasuppokattadesu | “was ~”. |
| Past negative | 安っぽくなかった yasuppokunakatta | 安っぽくなかったです yasuppokunakattadesu | “was not ~”. |
| Te-form | 安っぽくて yasuppokute | — | Links to the next clause: “~ and …”. |
| Adverb | 安っぽく yasuppoku | — | Turns it into “~ly”, describing a verb. |
| Before a noun | 安っぽい〜 yasuppoi〜 | — | How it attaches when it modifies a noun. |
| Conditional (~ば/なら) | 安っぽければ yasuppokereba | — | “if it is ~”. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 安っぽかったら yasuppokattara | — | “if / when it is ~”. The everyday conditional. |
| Become (~なる) | 安っぽくなる yasuppokunaru | 安っぽくなります yasuppokunarimasu | “becomes ~” — the change-of-state form. |
| Too much (~すぎる) | 安っぽすぎる yasupposugiru | 安っぽすぎます yasupposugimasu | “too ~”. |
| Looks ~ (~そう) | 安っぽそう yasupposou | 安っぽそうです yasupposoudesu | “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.