ぼやく (boyaku) conjugation
to grumble, to complain
ぼやく (ぼやく, boyaku) 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 | ぼやく boyaku | ぼやきます boyakimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | ぼやかない boyakanai | ぼやきません boyakimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | ぼやいた boyaita | ぼやきました boyakimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | ぼやかなかった boyakanakatta | ぼやきませんでした boyakimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | ぼやいて boyaite | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | ぼやいている boyaiteiru | ぼやいています boyaiteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | ぼやきたい boyakitai | ぼやきたいです boyakitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | ぼやこう boyakou | ぼやきましょう boyakimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | ぼやける boyakeru | ぼやけます boyakemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | ぼやかれる boyakareru | ぼやかれます boyakaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | ぼやかせる boyakaseru | ぼやかせます boyakasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | ぼやかされる boyakasareru | ぼやかされます boyakasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | ぼやけ boyake | ぼやいてください boyaitekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | ぼやくな boyakuna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | ぼやけば boyakeba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | ぼやいたら boyaitara | — | “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.