襲う (osou) conjugation
to attack
襲う (おそう, osou) 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 | 襲う osou | 襲います osoimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 襲わない osowanai | 襲いません osoimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 襲った osotta | 襲いました osoimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 襲わなかった osowanakatta | 襲いませんでした osoimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 襲って osotte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 襲っている osotteiru | 襲っています osotteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 襲いたい osoitai | 襲いたいです osoitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 襲おう osoou | 襲いましょう osoimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 襲える osoeru | 襲えます osoemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 襲われる osowareru | 襲われます osowaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 襲わせる osowaseru | 襲わせます osowasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 襲わされる osowasareru | 襲わされます osowasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 襲え osoe | 襲ってください osottekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 襲うな osouna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 襲えば osoeba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 襲ったら osottara | — | “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.