浮ぶ (ukabu) conjugation
to float, to rise to surface, to come to mind
浮ぶ (うかぶ, ukabu) 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 | 浮ぶ ukabu | 浮びます ukabimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 浮ばない ukabanai | 浮びません ukabimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 浮んだ ukanda | 浮びました ukabimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 浮ばなかった ukabanakatta | 浮びませんでした ukabimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 浮んで ukande | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 浮んでいる ukandeiru | 浮んでいます ukandeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 浮びたい ukabitai | 浮びたいです ukabitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 浮ぼう ukabou | 浮びましょう ukabimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 浮べる ukaberu | 浮べます ukabemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 浮ばれる ukabareru | 浮ばれます ukabaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 浮ばせる ukabaseru | 浮ばせます ukabasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 浮ばされる ukabasareru | 浮ばされます ukabasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 浮べ ukabe | 浮んでください ukandekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 浮ぶな ukabuna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 浮べば ukabeba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 浮んだら ukandara | — | “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.