払い戻す (haraimodosu) conjugation
to repay, to pay back
払い戻す (はらいもどす, haraimodosu) 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 | 払い戻す haraimodosu | 払い戻します haraimodoshimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 払い戻さない haraimodosanai | 払い戻しません haraimodoshimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 払い戻した haraimodoshita | 払い戻しました haraimodoshimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 払い戻さなかった haraimodosanakatta | 払い戻しませんでした haraimodoshimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 払い戻して haraimodoshite | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 払い戻している haraimodoshiteiru | 払い戻しています haraimodoshiteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 払い戻したい haraimodoshitai | 払い戻したいです haraimodoshitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 払い戻そう haraimodosou | 払い戻しましょう haraimodoshimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 払い戻せる haraimodoseru | 払い戻せます haraimodosemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 払い戻される haraimodosareru | 払い戻されます haraimodosaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 払い戻させる haraimodosaseru | 払い戻させます haraimodosasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 払い戻させられる haraimodosaserareru | 払い戻させられます haraimodosaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 払い戻せ haraimodose | 払い戻してください haraimodoshitekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 払い戻すな haraimodosuna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 払い戻せば haraimodoseba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 払い戻したら haraimodoshitara | — | “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.