諮る (hakaru) conjugation
to consult with, to confer
諮る (はかる, hakaru) 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 | 諮る hakaru | 諮ります hakarimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 諮らない hakaranai | 諮りません hakarimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 諮った hakatta | 諮りました hakarimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 諮らなかった hakaranakatta | 諮りませんでした hakarimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 諮って hakatte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 諮っている hakatteiru | 諮っています hakatteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 諮りたい hakaritai | 諮りたいです hakaritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 諮ろう hakarou | 諮りましょう hakarimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 諮れる hakareru | 諮れます hakaremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 諮られる hakarareru | 諮られます hakararemasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 諮らせる hakaraseru | 諮らせます hakarasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 諮らされる hakarasareru | 諮らされます hakarasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 諮れ hakare | 諮ってください hakattekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 諮るな hakaruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 諮れば hakareba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 諮ったら hakattara | — | “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.