吹く (fuku) conjugation
to blow (wind, etc.)
吹く (ふく, fuku) 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 | 吹く fuku | 吹きます fukimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 吹かない fukanai | 吹きません fukimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 吹いた fuita | 吹きました fukimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 吹かなかった fukanakatta | 吹きませんでした fukimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 吹いて fuite | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 吹いている fuiteiru | 吹いています fuiteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 吹きたい fukitai | 吹きたいです fukitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 吹こう fukou | 吹きましょう fukimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 吹ける fukeru | 吹けます fukemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 吹かれる fukareru | 吹かれます fukaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 吹かせる fukaseru | 吹かせます fukasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 吹かされる fukasareru | 吹かされます fukasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 吹け fuke | 吹いてください fuitekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 吹くな fukuna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 吹けば fukeba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 吹いたら fuitara | — | “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.