乾かす (kawakasu) conjugation
to dry
乾かす (かわかす, kawakasu) 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 | 乾かす kawakasu | 乾かします kawakashimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 乾かさない kawakasanai | 乾かしません kawakashimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 乾かした kawakashita | 乾かしました kawakashimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 乾かさなかった kawakasanakatta | 乾かしませんでした kawakashimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 乾かして kawakashite | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 乾かしている kawakashiteiru | 乾かしています kawakashiteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 乾かしたい kawakashitai | 乾かしたいです kawakashitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 乾かそう kawakasou | 乾かしましょう kawakashimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 乾かせる kawakaseru | 乾かせます kawakasemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 乾かされる kawakasareru | 乾かされます kawakasaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 乾かさせる kawakasaseru | 乾かさせます kawakasasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 乾かさせられる kawakasaserareru | 乾かさせられます kawakasaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 乾かせ kawakase | 乾かしてください kawakashitekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 乾かすな kawakasuna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 乾かせば kawakaseba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 乾かしたら kawakashitara | — | “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.