奪う (ubau) conjugation
to rob, to deprive
奪う (うばう, ubau) 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 | 奪う ubau | 奪います ubaimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 奪わない ubawanai | 奪いません ubaimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 奪った ubatta | 奪いました ubaimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 奪わなかった ubawanakatta | 奪いませんでした ubaimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 奪って ubatte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 奪っている ubatteiru | 奪っています ubatteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 奪いたい ubaitai | 奪いたいです ubaitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 奪おう ubaou | 奪いましょう ubaimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 奪える ubaeru | 奪えます ubaemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 奪われる ubawareru | 奪われます ubawaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 奪わせる ubawaseru | 奪わせます ubawasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 奪わされる ubawasareru | 奪わされます ubawasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 奪え ubae | 奪ってください ubattekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 奪うな ubauna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 奪えば ubaeba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 奪ったら ubattara | — | “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.