掻き回す (kakimawasu) conjugation
to stir up, to churn, to disturb
掻き回す (かきまわす, kakimawasu) 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 | 掻き回す kakimawasu | 掻き回します kakimawashimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 掻き回さない kakimawasanai | 掻き回しません kakimawashimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 掻き回した kakimawashita | 掻き回しました kakimawashimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 掻き回さなかった kakimawasanakatta | 掻き回しませんでした kakimawashimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 掻き回して kakimawashite | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 掻き回している kakimawashiteiru | 掻き回しています kakimawashiteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 掻き回したい kakimawashitai | 掻き回したいです kakimawashitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 掻き回そう kakimawasou | 掻き回しましょう kakimawashimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 掻き回せる kakimawaseru | 掻き回せます kakimawasemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 掻き回される kakimawasareru | 掻き回されます kakimawasaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 掻き回させる kakimawasaseru | 掻き回させます kakimawasasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 掻き回させられる kakimawasaserareru | 掻き回させられます kakimawasaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 掻き回せ kakimawase | 掻き回してください kakimawashitekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 掻き回すな kakimawasuna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 掻き回せば kakimawaseba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 掻き回したら kakimawashitara | — | “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.