騙す (damasu) conjugation
to trick, to cheat, to deceive
騙す (だます, damasu) 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 | 騙す damasu | 騙します damashimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 騙さない damasanai | 騙しません damashimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 騙した damashita | 騙しました damashimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 騙さなかった damasanakatta | 騙しませんでした damashimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 騙して damashite | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 騙している damashiteiru | 騙しています damashiteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 騙したい damashitai | 騙したいです damashitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 騙そう damasou | 騙しましょう damashimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 騙せる damaseru | 騙せます damasemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 騙される damasareru | 騙されます damasaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 騙させる damasaseru | 騙させます damasasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 騙させられる damasaserareru | 騙させられます damasaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 騙せ damase | 騙してください damashitekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 騙すな damasuna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 騙せば damaseba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 騙したら damashitara | — | “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.