浸す (hitasu) conjugation
to soak, to dip, to drench
浸す (ひたす, hitasu) 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 | 浸す hitasu | 浸します hitashimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 浸さない hitasanai | 浸しません hitashimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 浸した hitashita | 浸しました hitashimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 浸さなかった hitasanakatta | 浸しませんでした hitashimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 浸して hitashite | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 浸している hitashiteiru | 浸しています hitashiteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 浸したい hitashitai | 浸したいです hitashitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 浸そう hitasou | 浸しましょう hitashimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 浸せる hitaseru | 浸せます hitasemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 浸される hitasareru | 浸されます hitasaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 浸させる hitasaseru | 浸させます hitasasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 浸させられる hitasaserareru | 浸させられます hitasaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 浸せ hitase | 浸してください hitashitekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 浸すな hitasuna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 浸せば hitaseba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 浸したら hitashitara | — | “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.