描く (egaku) conjugation
to draw, to depict, to describe
描く (えがく, egaku) 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 | 描く egaku | 描きます egakimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 描かない egakanai | 描きません egakimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 描いた egaita | 描きました egakimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 描かなかった egakanakatta | 描きませんでした egakimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 描いて egaite | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 描いている egaiteiru | 描いています egaiteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 描きたい egakitai | 描きたいです egakitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 描こう egakou | 描きましょう egakimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 描ける egakeru | 描けます egakemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 描かれる egakareru | 描かれます egakaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 描かせる egakaseru | 描かせます egakasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 描かされる egakasareru | 描かされます egakasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 描け egake | 描いてください egaitekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 描くな egakuna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 描けば egakeba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 描いたら egaitara | — | “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.