急ぐ (isogu) conjugation
to hurry, to be in a hurry, to rush
急ぐ (いそぐ, isogu) 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 | 急ぐ isogu | 急ぎます isogimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 急がない isoganai | 急ぎません isogimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 急いだ isoida | 急ぎました isogimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 急がなかった isoganakatta | 急ぎませんでした isogimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 急いで isoide | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 急いでいる isoideiru | 急いでいます isoideimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 急ぎたい isogitai | 急ぎたいです isogitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 急ごう isogou | 急ぎましょう isogimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 急げる isogeru | 急げます isogemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 急がれる isogareru | 急がれます isogaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 急がせる isogaseru | 急がせます isogasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 急がされる isogasareru | 急がされます isogasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 急げ isoge | 急いでください isoidekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 急ぐな isoguna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 急げば isogeba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 急いだら isoidara | — | “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.