省く (habuku) conjugation
to omit, to eliminate
省く (はぶく, habuku) 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 | 省く habuku | 省きます habukimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 省かない habukanai | 省きません habukimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 省いた habuita | 省きました habukimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 省かなかった habukanakatta | 省きませんでした habukimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 省いて habuite | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 省いている habuiteiru | 省いています habuiteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 省きたい habukitai | 省きたいです habukitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 省こう habukou | 省きましょう habukimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 省ける habukeru | 省けます habukemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 省かれる habukareru | 省かれます habukaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 省かせる habukaseru | 省かせます habukasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 省かされる habukasareru | 省かされます habukasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 省け habuke | 省いてください habuitekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 省くな habukuna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 省けば habukeba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 省いたら habuitara | — | “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.