輝く (kagayaku) conjugation
to shine, to glitter, to sparkle
輝く (かがやく, kagayaku) 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 | 輝く kagayaku | 輝きます kagayakimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 輝かない kagayakanai | 輝きません kagayakimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 輝いた kagayaita | 輝きました kagayakimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 輝かなかった kagayakanakatta | 輝きませんでした kagayakimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 輝いて kagayaite | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 輝いている kagayaiteiru | 輝いています kagayaiteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 輝きたい kagayakitai | 輝きたいです kagayakitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 輝こう kagayakou | 輝きましょう kagayakimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 輝ける kagayakeru | 輝けます kagayakemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 輝かれる kagayakareru | 輝かれます kagayakaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 輝かせる kagayakaseru | 輝かせます kagayakasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 輝かされる kagayakasareru | 輝かされます kagayakasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 輝け kagayake | 輝いてください kagayaitekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 輝くな kagayakuna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 輝けば kagayakeba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 輝いたら kagayaitara | — | “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.