嫌う (kirau) conjugation
to hate, to dislike, to loathe
嫌う (きらう, kirau) 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 | 嫌う kirau | 嫌います kiraimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 嫌わない kirawanai | 嫌いません kiraimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 嫌った kiratta | 嫌いました kiraimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 嫌わなかった kirawanakatta | 嫌いませんでした kiraimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 嫌って kiratte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 嫌っている kiratteiru | 嫌っています kiratteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 嫌いたい kiraitai | 嫌いたいです kiraitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 嫌おう kiraou | 嫌いましょう kiraimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 嫌える kiraeru | 嫌えます kiraemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 嫌われる kirawareru | 嫌われます kirawaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 嫌わせる kirawaseru | 嫌わせます kirawasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 嫌わされる kirawasareru | 嫌わされます kirawasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 嫌え kirae | 嫌ってください kirattekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 嫌うな kirauna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 嫌えば kiraeba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 嫌ったら kirattara | — | “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.