誘う (sasou) conjugation
to invite (someone to do something with you); to tempt, to lure
誘う (さそう, sasou) 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 | 誘う sasou | 誘います sasoimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 誘わない sasowanai | 誘いません sasoimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 誘った sasotta | 誘いました sasoimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 誘わなかった sasowanakatta | 誘いませんでした sasoimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 誘って sasotte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 誘っている sasotteiru | 誘っています sasotteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 誘いたい sasoitai | 誘いたいです sasoitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 誘おう sasoou | 誘いましょう sasoimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 誘える sasoeru | 誘えます sasoemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 誘われる sasowareru | 誘われます sasowaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 誘わせる sasowaseru | 誘わせます sasowasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 誘わされる sasowasareru | 誘わされます sasowasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 誘え sasoe | 誘ってください sasottekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 誘うな sasouna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 誘えば sasoeba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 誘ったら sasottara | — | “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.