励ます (hagemasu) conjugation
to encourage, to cheer, to raise (the voice)
励ます (はげます, hagemasu) 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 | 励ます hagemasu | 励まします hagemashimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 励まさない hagemasanai | 励ましません hagemashimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 励ました hagemashita | 励ましました hagemashimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 励まさなかった hagemasanakatta | 励ましませんでした hagemashimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 励まして hagemashite | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 励ましている hagemashiteiru | 励ましています hagemashiteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 励ましたい hagemashitai | 励ましたいです hagemashitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 励まそう hagemasou | 励ましましょう hagemashimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 励ませる hagemaseru | 励ませます hagemasemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 励まされる hagemasareru | 励まされます hagemasaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 励まさせる hagemasaseru | 励まさせます hagemasasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 励まさせられる hagemasaserareru | 励まさせられます hagemasaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 励ませ hagemase | 励ましてください hagemashitekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 励ますな hagemasuna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 励ませば hagemaseba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 励ましたら hagemashitara | — | “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.