Katsuyo

い-adjective

馬鹿馬鹿しいばかばかしい

bakabakashii

absurd · N1

馬鹿馬鹿しい (ばかばかしい, bakabakashii) — absurd — is an -adjective: ばかばかしかった (past), ばかばかしくない (negative), ばかばかしくて (te-form), ばかばかしいです (polite).

It is usually written in kana: ばかばかしい rather than 馬鹿馬鹿しい. It also means ridiculous; silly.

How ばかばかしい conjugates · -adjective

Drop the final , then add the ending.

Every form is built on the stem ばかばかし. The one that isn't: the polite present, which is the whole word plus です.

ばかばかし dropsstem + ending
ばかばかしかったばかばかしかったpast · It was ridiculous. ばかばかしくないばかばかしくないnegative · It isn't ridiculous. ばかばかしくてばかばかしくてte-form · It's ridiculous and … ばかばかしければばかばかしければif ばかばかしいですばかばかしいですpolite presentkeeps the い

Every -adjective works this way. The one exception is いい, which conjugates from its older form よい.

N5 N tags give the JLPT level at which the game starts quizzing a form.

Aa Dimmed forms are too rare in everyday Japanese for the game to quiz.

PLAIN

FormConjugationAudio
present N5 ばかばかしい 馬鹿馬鹿しい bakabakashii
past N5 It was ridiculous. ばかばかしかった 馬鹿馬鹿しかった bakabakashikatta
negative N5 It isn't ridiculous. ばかばかしくない 馬鹿馬鹿しくない bakabakashikunai
te-form N5 It's ridiculous and … ばかばかしくて 馬鹿馬鹿しくて bakabakashikute
past negative N4 ばかばかしくなかった 馬鹿馬鹿しくなかった bakabakashikunakatta
cond. ば N3 ばかばかしければ 馬鹿馬鹿しければ bakabakashikereba
cond. たら N3 ばかばかしかったら 馬鹿馬鹿しかったら bakabakashikattara

POLITE

FormConjugationAudio
present N5 ばかばかしいです 馬鹿馬鹿しいです bakabakashiidesu
past N5 It was ridiculous. ばかばかしかったです 馬鹿馬鹿しかったです bakabakashikattadesu
negative N5 It isn't ridiculous. ばかばかしくないです 馬鹿馬鹿しくないです bakabakashikunaidesu
past negative N4 ばかばかしくなかったです 馬鹿馬鹿しくなかったです bakabakashikunakattadesu