赴く (omomuku) conjugation
to go, to proceed
赴く (おもむく, omomuku) 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 | 赴く omomuku | 赴きます omomukimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 赴かない omomukanai | 赴きません omomukimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 赴いた omomuita | 赴きました omomukimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 赴かなかった omomukanakatta | 赴きませんでした omomukimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 赴いて omomuite | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 赴いている omomuiteiru | 赴いています omomuiteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 赴きたい omomukitai | 赴きたいです omomukitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 赴こう omomukou | 赴きましょう omomukimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 赴ける omomukeru | 赴けます omomukemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 赴かれる omomukareru | 赴かれます omomukaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 赴かせる omomukaseru | 赴かせます omomukasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 赴かされる omomukasareru | 赴かされます omomukasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 赴け omomuke | 赴いてください omomuitekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 赴くな omomukuna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 赴けば omomukeba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 赴いたら omomuitara | — | “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.