騒ぐ (sawagu) conjugation
to make noise, to clamor
騒ぐ (さわぐ, sawagu) 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 | 騒ぐ sawagu | 騒ぎます sawagimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 騒がない sawaganai | 騒ぎません sawagimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 騒いだ sawaida | 騒ぎました sawagimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 騒がなかった sawaganakatta | 騒ぎませんでした sawagimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 騒いで sawaide | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 騒いでいる sawaideiru | 騒いでいます sawaideimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 騒ぎたい sawagitai | 騒ぎたいです sawagitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 騒ごう sawagou | 騒ぎましょう sawagimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 騒げる sawageru | 騒げます sawagemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 騒がれる sawagareru | 騒がれます sawagaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 騒がせる sawagaseru | 騒がせます sawagasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 騒がされる sawagasareru | 騒がされます sawagasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 騒げ sawage | 騒いでください sawaidekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 騒ぐな sawaguna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 騒げば sawageba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 騒いだら sawaidara | — | “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.