引っ繰り返す (hikkurikaesu) conjugation
to turn over, to overturn, to knock over
引っ繰り返す (ひっくりかえす, hikkurikaesu) 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 | 引っ繰り返す hikkurikaesu | 引っ繰り返します hikkurikaeshimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 引っ繰り返さない hikkurikaesanai | 引っ繰り返しません hikkurikaeshimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 引っ繰り返した hikkurikaeshita | 引っ繰り返しました hikkurikaeshimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 引っ繰り返さなかった hikkurikaesanakatta | 引っ繰り返しませんでした hikkurikaeshimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 引っ繰り返して hikkurikaeshite | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 引っ繰り返している hikkurikaeshiteiru | 引っ繰り返しています hikkurikaeshiteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 引っ繰り返したい hikkurikaeshitai | 引っ繰り返したいです hikkurikaeshitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 引っ繰り返そう hikkurikaesou | 引っ繰り返しましょう hikkurikaeshimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 引っ繰り返せる hikkurikaeseru | 引っ繰り返せます hikkurikaesemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 引っ繰り返される hikkurikaesareru | 引っ繰り返されます hikkurikaesaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 引っ繰り返させる hikkurikaesaseru | 引っ繰り返させます hikkurikaesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 引っ繰り返させられる hikkurikaesaserareru | 引っ繰り返させられます hikkurikaesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 引っ繰り返せ hikkurikaese | 引っ繰り返してください hikkurikaeshitekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 引っ繰り返すな hikkurikaesuna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 引っ繰り返せば hikkurikaeseba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 引っ繰り返したら hikkurikaeshitara | — | “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.