助かる (tasukaru) conjugation
to be saved; (something) helps (v.i.)
助かる (たすかる, tasukaru) 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 | 助かる tasukaru | 助かります tasukarimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 助からない tasukaranai | 助かりません tasukarimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 助かった tasukatta | 助かりました tasukarimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 助からなかった tasukaranakatta | 助かりませんでした tasukarimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 助かって tasukatte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 助かっている tasukatteiru | 助かっています tasukatteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 助かりたい tasukaritai | 助かりたいです tasukaritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 助かろう tasukarou | 助かりましょう tasukarimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 助かれる tasukareru | 助かれます tasukaremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 助かられる tasukarareru | 助かられます tasukararemasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 助からせる tasukaraseru | 助からせます tasukarasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 助からされる tasukarasareru | 助からされます tasukarasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 助かれ tasukare | 助かってください tasukattekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 助かるな tasukaruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 助かれば tasukareba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 助かったら tasukattara | — | “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.