恥じらう (hajirau) conjugation
to feel shy, to be bashful, to blush
恥じらう (はじらう, hajirau) 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 | 恥じらう hajirau | 恥じらいます hajiraimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 恥じらわない hajirawanai | 恥じらいません hajiraimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 恥じらった hajiratta | 恥じらいました hajiraimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 恥じらわなかった hajirawanakatta | 恥じらいませんでした hajiraimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 恥じらって hajiratte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 恥じらっている hajiratteiru | 恥じらっています hajiratteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 恥じらいたい hajiraitai | 恥じらいたいです hajiraitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 恥じらおう hajiraou | 恥じらいましょう hajiraimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 恥じらえる hajiraeru | 恥じらえます hajiraemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 恥じらわれる hajirawareru | 恥じらわれます hajirawaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 恥じらわせる hajirawaseru | 恥じらわせます hajirawasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 恥じらわされる hajirawasareru | 恥じらわされます hajirawasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 恥じらえ hajirae | 恥じらってください hajirattekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 恥じらうな hajirauna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 恥じらえば hajiraeba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 恥じらったら hajirattara | — | “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.