拾う (hirou) conjugation
to pick up (something), to find
拾う (ひろう, hirou) 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 | 拾う hirou | 拾います hiroimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 拾わない hirowanai | 拾いません hiroimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 拾った hirotta | 拾いました hiroimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 拾わなかった hirowanakatta | 拾いませんでした hiroimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 拾って hirotte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 拾っている hirotteiru | 拾っています hirotteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 拾いたい hiroitai | 拾いたいです hiroitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 拾おう hiroou | 拾いましょう hiroimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 拾える hiroeru | 拾えます hiroemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 拾われる hirowareru | 拾われます hirowaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 拾わせる hirowaseru | 拾わせます hirowasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 拾わされる hirowasareru | 拾わされます hirowasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 拾え hiroe | 拾ってください hirottekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 拾うな hirouna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 拾えば hiroeba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 拾ったら hirottara | — | “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.