味わう (ajiwau) conjugation
to taste, to savor
味わう (あじわう, ajiwau) is a godan verb. Godan verbs change their final kana up and down its column of the kana chart — the a-row for negatives, the i-row before ます, the e-row for potential and ば. Every form below is tappable — hear it, then say it back.
Conjugation table
| Form | Plain (casual) | Polite (~ます) | When you use it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dictionary / plain | 味わう ajiwau | 味わいます ajiwaimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 味わわない ajiwawanai | 味わいません ajiwaimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 味わった ajiwatta | 味わいました ajiwaimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 味わわなかった ajiwawanakatta | 味わいませんでした ajiwaimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 味わって ajiwatte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 味わっている ajiwatteiru | 味わっています ajiwatteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 味わいたい ajiwaitai | 味わいたいです ajiwaitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 味わおう ajiwaou | 味わいましょう ajiwaimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 味わえる ajiwaeru | 味わえます ajiwaemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 味わわれる ajiwawareru | 味わわれます ajiwawaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 味わわせる ajiwawaseru | 味わわせます ajiwawasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 味わわされる ajiwawasareru | 味わわされます ajiwawasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 味わえ ajiwae | 味わってください ajiwattekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 味わうな ajiwauna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 味わえば ajiwaeba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 味わったら ajiwattara | — | “if / when ~”. The everyday conditional. |
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Why it conjugates this way
Godan verbs change their final kana up and down its column of the kana chart — the a-row for negatives, the i-row before ます, the e-row for potential and ば.
See the full rules on the verb conjugation guide.