話し合う (hanashiau) conjugation
to discuss, to talk together
話し合う (はなしあう, hanashiau) 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 | 話し合う hanashiau | 話し合います hanashiaimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 話し合わない hanashiawanai | 話し合いません hanashiaimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 話し合った hanashiatta | 話し合いました hanashiaimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 話し合わなかった hanashiawanakatta | 話し合いませんでした hanashiaimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 話し合って hanashiatte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 話し合っている hanashiatteiru | 話し合っています hanashiatteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 話し合いたい hanashiaitai | 話し合いたいです hanashiaitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 話し合おう hanashiaou | 話し合いましょう hanashiaimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 話し合える hanashiaeru | 話し合えます hanashiaemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 話し合われる hanashiawareru | 話し合われます hanashiawaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 話し合わせる hanashiawaseru | 話し合わせます hanashiawasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 話し合わされる hanashiawasareru | 話し合わされます hanashiawasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 話し合え hanashiae | 話し合ってください hanashiattekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 話し合うな hanashiauna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 話し合えば hanashiaeba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 話し合ったら hanashiattara | — | “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.