運ぶ (hakobu) conjugation
to transport, to carry
運ぶ (はこぶ, hakobu) 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 | 運ぶ hakobu | 運びます hakobimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 運ばない hakobanai | 運びません hakobimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 運んだ hakonda | 運びました hakobimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 運ばなかった hakobanakatta | 運びませんでした hakobimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 運んで hakonde | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 運んでいる hakondeiru | 運んでいます hakondeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 運びたい hakobitai | 運びたいです hakobitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 運ぼう hakobou | 運びましょう hakobimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 運べる hakoberu | 運べます hakobemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 運ばれる hakobareru | 運ばれます hakobaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 運ばせる hakobaseru | 運ばせます hakobasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 運ばされる hakobasareru | 運ばされます hakobasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 運べ hakobe | 運んでください hakondekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 運ぶな hakobuna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 運べば hakobeba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 運んだら hakondara | — | “if / when ~”. The everyday conditional. |
🔊 Tap any Japanese word to hear it spoken.
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.