掃く (haku) conjugation
to sweep, to brush, to gather up
掃く (はく, haku) 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 | 掃く haku | 掃きます hakimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 掃かない hakanai | 掃きません hakimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 掃いた haita | 掃きました hakimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 掃かなかった hakanakatta | 掃きませんでした hakimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 掃いて haite | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 掃いている haiteiru | 掃いています haiteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 掃きたい hakitai | 掃きたいです hakitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 掃こう hakou | 掃きましょう hakimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 掃ける hakeru | 掃けます hakemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 掃かれる hakareru | 掃かれます hakaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 掃かせる hakaseru | 掃かせます hakasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 掃かされる hakasareru | 掃かされます hakasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 掃け hake | 掃いてください haitekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 掃くな hakuna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 掃けば hakeba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 掃いたら haitara | — | “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.