緩い (yurui) conjugation
loose, lenient, slow
緩い (ゆるい, yurui) 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 | 緩い yurui | 緩いです yuruidesu | The form you look up. Also the casual “is ~”. |
| Negative | 緩くない yurukunai | 緩くないです yurukunaidesu | “is not ~”. |
| Past | 緩かった yurukatta | 緩かったです yurukattadesu | “was ~”. |
| Past negative | 緩くなかった yurukunakatta | 緩くなかったです yurukunakattadesu | “was not ~”. |
| Te-form | 緩くて yurukute | — | Links to the next clause: “~ and …”. |
| Adverb | 緩く yuruku | — | Turns it into “~ly”, describing a verb. |
| Before a noun | 緩い〜 yurui〜 | — | How it attaches when it modifies a noun. |
| Conditional (~ば/なら) | 緩ければ yurukereba | — | “if it is ~”. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 緩かったら yurukattara | — | “if / when it is ~”. The everyday conditional. |
| Become (~なる) | 緩くなる yurukunaru | 緩くなります yurukunarimasu | “becomes ~” — the change-of-state form. |
| Too much (~すぎる) | 緩すぎる yurusugiru | 緩すぎます yurusugimasu | “too ~”. |
| Looks ~ (~そう) | 緩そう yurusou | 緩そうです yurusoudesu | “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.