稼ぐ (kasegu) conjugation
to earn income, to labor
稼ぐ (かせぐ, kasegu) 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 | 稼ぐ kasegu | 稼ぎます kasegimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 稼がない kaseganai | 稼ぎません kasegimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 稼いだ kaseida | 稼ぎました kasegimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 稼がなかった kaseganakatta | 稼ぎませんでした kasegimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 稼いで kaseide | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 稼いでいる kaseideiru | 稼いでいます kaseideimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 稼ぎたい kasegitai | 稼ぎたいです kasegitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 稼ごう kasegou | 稼ぎましょう kasegimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 稼げる kasegeru | 稼げます kasegemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 稼がれる kasegareru | 稼がれます kasegaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 稼がせる kasegaseru | 稼がせます kasegasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 稼がされる kasegasareru | 稼がされます kasegasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 稼げ kasege | 稼いでください kaseidekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 稼ぐな kaseguna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 稼げば kasegeba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 稼いだら kaseidara | — | “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.