叫ぶ (sakebu) conjugation
to shout, to cry
叫ぶ (さけぶ, sakebu) 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 | 叫ぶ sakebu | 叫びます sakebimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 叫ばない sakebanai | 叫びません sakebimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 叫んだ sakenda | 叫びました sakebimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 叫ばなかった sakebanakatta | 叫びませんでした sakebimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 叫んで sakende | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 叫んでいる sakendeiru | 叫んでいます sakendeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 叫びたい sakebitai | 叫びたいです sakebitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 叫ぼう sakebou | 叫びましょう sakebimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 叫べる sakeberu | 叫べます sakebemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 叫ばれる sakebareru | 叫ばれます sakebaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 叫ばせる sakebaseru | 叫ばせます sakebasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 叫ばされる sakebasareru | 叫ばされます sakebasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 叫べ sakebe | 叫んでください sakendekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 叫ぶな sakebuna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 叫べば sakebeba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 叫んだら sakendara | — | “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.