可愛がる (kawaigaru) conjugation
to love, to be affectionate
可愛がる (かわいがる, kawaigaru) 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 | 可愛がる kawaigaru | 可愛がります kawaigarimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 可愛がらない kawaigaranai | 可愛がりません kawaigarimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 可愛がった kawaigatta | 可愛がりました kawaigarimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 可愛がらなかった kawaigaranakatta | 可愛がりませんでした kawaigarimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 可愛がって kawaigatte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 可愛がっている kawaigatteiru | 可愛がっています kawaigatteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 可愛がりたい kawaigaritai | 可愛がりたいです kawaigaritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 可愛がろう kawaigarou | 可愛がりましょう kawaigarimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 可愛がれる kawaigareru | 可愛がれます kawaigaremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 可愛がられる kawaigarareru | 可愛がられます kawaigararemasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 可愛がらせる kawaigaraseru | 可愛がらせます kawaigarasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 可愛がらされる kawaigarasareru | 可愛がらされます kawaigarasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 可愛がれ kawaigare | 可愛がってください kawaigattekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 可愛がるな kawaigaruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 可愛がれば kawaigareba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 可愛がったら kawaigattara | — | “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.