暮らす (kurasu) conjugation
to live, to get along
暮らす (くらす, kurasu) 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 | 暮らす kurasu | 暮らします kurashimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 暮らさない kurasanai | 暮らしません kurashimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 暮らした kurashita | 暮らしました kurashimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 暮らさなかった kurasanakatta | 暮らしませんでした kurashimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 暮らして kurashite | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 暮らしている kurashiteiru | 暮らしています kurashiteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 暮らしたい kurashitai | 暮らしたいです kurashitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 暮らそう kurasou | 暮らしましょう kurashimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 暮らせる kuraseru | 暮らせます kurasemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 暮らされる kurasareru | 暮らされます kurasaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 暮らさせる kurasaseru | 暮らさせます kurasasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 暮らさせられる kurasaserareru | 暮らさせられます kurasaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 暮らせ kurase | 暮らしてください kurashitekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 暮らすな kurasuna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 暮らせば kuraseba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 暮らしたら kurashitara | — | “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.