続く (tsuzuku) conjugation
to be continued
続く (つづく, tsuzuku) 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 | 続く tsuzuku | 続きます tsuzukimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 続かない tsuzukanai | 続きません tsuzukimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 続いた tsuzuita | 続きました tsuzukimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 続かなかった tsuzukanakatta | 続きませんでした tsuzukimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 続いて tsuzuite | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 続いている tsuzuiteiru | 続いています tsuzuiteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 続きたい tsuzukitai | 続きたいです tsuzukitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 続こう tsuzukou | 続きましょう tsuzukimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 続ける tsuzukeru | 続けます tsuzukemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 続かれる tsuzukareru | 続かれます tsuzukaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 続かせる tsuzukaseru | 続かせます tsuzukasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 続かされる tsuzukasareru | 続かされます tsuzukasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 続け tsuzuke | 続いてください tsuzuitekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 続くな tsuzukuna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 続けば tsuzukeba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 続いたら tsuzuitara | — | “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.