係わる (kakawaru) conjugation
to concern oneself in, to be involved in
係わる (かかわる, kakawaru) 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 | 係わる kakawaru | 係わります kakawarimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 係わらない kakawaranai | 係わりません kakawarimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 係わった kakawatta | 係わりました kakawarimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 係わらなかった kakawaranakatta | 係わりませんでした kakawarimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 係わって kakawatte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 係わっている kakawatteiru | 係わっています kakawatteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 係わりたい kakawaritai | 係わりたいです kakawaritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 係わろう kakawarou | 係わりましょう kakawarimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 係われる kakawareru | 係われます kakawaremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 係わられる kakawarareru | 係わられます kakawararemasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 係わらせる kakawaraseru | 係わらせます kakawarasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 係わらされる kakawarasareru | 係わらされます kakawarasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 係われ kakaware | 係わってください kakawattekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 係わるな kakawaruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 係われば kakawareba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 係わったら kakawattara | — | “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.