儲かる (moukaru) conjugation
to be profitable, to yield a profit
儲かる (もうかる, moukaru) 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 | 儲かる moukaru | 儲かります moukarimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 儲からない moukaranai | 儲かりません moukarimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 儲かった moukatta | 儲かりました moukarimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 儲からなかった moukaranakatta | 儲かりませんでした moukarimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 儲かって moukatte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 儲かっている moukatteiru | 儲かっています moukatteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 儲かりたい moukaritai | 儲かりたいです moukaritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 儲かろう moukarou | 儲かりましょう moukarimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 儲かれる moukareru | 儲かれます moukaremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 儲かられる moukarareru | 儲かられます moukararemasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 儲からせる moukaraseru | 儲からせます moukarasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 儲からされる moukarasareru | 儲からされます moukarasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 儲かれ moukare | 儲かってください moukattekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 儲かるな moukaruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 儲かれば moukareba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 儲かったら moukattara | — | “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.