急かす (sekasu) conjugation
to hurry, to urge on
急かす (せかす, sekasu) 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 | 急かす sekasu | 急かします sekashimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 急かさない sekasanai | 急かしません sekashimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 急かした sekashita | 急かしました sekashimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 急かさなかった sekasanakatta | 急かしませんでした sekashimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 急かして sekashite | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 急かしている sekashiteiru | 急かしています sekashiteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 急かしたい sekashitai | 急かしたいです sekashitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 急かそう sekasou | 急かしましょう sekashimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 急かせる sekaseru | 急かせます sekasemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 急かされる sekasareru | 急かされます sekasaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 急かさせる sekasaseru | 急かさせます sekasasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 急かさせられる sekasaserareru | 急かさせられます sekasaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 急かせ sekase | 急かしてください sekashitekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 急かすな sekasuna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 急かせば sekaseba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 急かしたら sekashitara | — | “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.