伺う (ukagau) conjugation
humble form of 行く (いく), 聞く (きく) and 来る (くる)
伺う (うかがう, ukagau) 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 | 伺う ukagau | 伺います ukagaimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 伺わない ukagawanai | 伺いません ukagaimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 伺った ukagatta | 伺いました ukagaimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 伺わなかった ukagawanakatta | 伺いませんでした ukagaimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 伺って ukagatte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 伺っている ukagatteiru | 伺っています ukagatteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 伺いたい ukagaitai | 伺いたいです ukagaitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 伺おう ukagaou | 伺いましょう ukagaimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 伺える ukagaeru | 伺えます ukagaemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 伺われる ukagawareru | 伺われます ukagawaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 伺わせる ukagawaseru | 伺わせます ukagawasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 伺わされる ukagawasareru | 伺わされます ukagawasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 伺え ukagae | 伺ってください ukagattekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 伺うな ukagauna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 伺えば ukagaeba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 伺ったら ukagattara | — | “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.