這う (hau) conjugation
to creep, to crawl
這う (はう, hau) 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 | 這う hau | 這います haimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 這わない hawanai | 這いません haimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 這った hatta | 這いました haimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 這わなかった hawanakatta | 這いませんでした haimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 這って hatte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 這っている hatteiru | 這っています hatteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 這いたい haitai | 這いたいです haitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 這おう haou | 這いましょう haimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 這える haeru | 這えます haemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 這われる hawareru | 這われます hawaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 這わせる hawaseru | 這わせます hawasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 這わされる hawasareru | 這わされます hawasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 這え hae | 這ってください hattekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 這うな hauna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 這えば haeba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 這ったら hattara | — | “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.