剥ぐ (hagu) conjugation
to tear off, to peel off, to rip off
剥ぐ (はぐ, hagu) 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 | 剥ぐ hagu | 剥ぎます hagimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 剥がない haganai | 剥ぎません hagimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 剥いだ haida | 剥ぎました hagimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 剥がなかった haganakatta | 剥ぎませんでした hagimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 剥いで haide | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 剥いでいる haideiru | 剥いでいます haideimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 剥ぎたい hagitai | 剥ぎたいです hagitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 剥ごう hagou | 剥ぎましょう hagimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 剥げる hageru | 剥げます hagemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 剥がれる hagareru | 剥がれます hagaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 剥がせる hagaseru | 剥がせます hagasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 剥がされる hagasareru | 剥がされます hagasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 剥げ hage | 剥いでください haidekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 剥ぐな haguna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 剥げば hageba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 剥いだら haidara | — | “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.