冷やかす (hiyakasu) conjugation
to banter, to make fun of, to jeer at, to cool, to refrigerate
冷やかす (ひやかす, hiyakasu) 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 | 冷やかす hiyakasu | 冷やかします hiyakashimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 冷やかさない hiyakasanai | 冷やかしません hiyakashimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 冷やかした hiyakashita | 冷やかしました hiyakashimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 冷やかさなかった hiyakasanakatta | 冷やかしませんでした hiyakashimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 冷やかして hiyakashite | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 冷やかしている hiyakashiteiru | 冷やかしています hiyakashiteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 冷やかしたい hiyakashitai | 冷やかしたいです hiyakashitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 冷やかそう hiyakasou | 冷やかしましょう hiyakashimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 冷やかせる hiyakaseru | 冷やかせます hiyakasemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 冷やかされる hiyakasareru | 冷やかされます hiyakasaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 冷やかさせる hiyakasaseru | 冷やかさせます hiyakasasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 冷やかさせられる hiyakasaserareru | 冷やかさせられます hiyakasaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 冷やかせ hiyakase | 冷やかしてください hiyakashitekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 冷やかすな hiyakasuna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 冷やかせば hiyakaseba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 冷やかしたら hiyakashitara | — | “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.