召す (mesu) conjugation
to call, to send for, to put on
召す (めす, mesu) 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 | 召す mesu | 召します meshimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 召さない mesanai | 召しません meshimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 召した meshita | 召しました meshimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 召さなかった mesanakatta | 召しませんでした meshimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 召して meshite | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 召している meshiteiru | 召しています meshiteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 召したい meshitai | 召したいです meshitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 召そう mesou | 召しましょう meshimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 召せる meseru | 召せます mesemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 召される mesareru | 召されます mesaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 召させる mesaseru | 召させます mesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 召させられる mesaserareru | 召させられます mesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 召せ mese | 召してください meshitekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 召すな mesuna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 召せば meseba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 召したら meshitara | — | “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.