呼び出す (yobidasu) conjugation
to summon, to call (e.g., phone)
呼び出す (よびだす, yobidasu) 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 | 呼び出す yobidasu | 呼び出します yobidashimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 呼び出さない yobidasanai | 呼び出しません yobidashimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 呼び出した yobidashita | 呼び出しました yobidashimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 呼び出さなかった yobidasanakatta | 呼び出しませんでした yobidashimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 呼び出して yobidashite | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 呼び出している yobidashiteiru | 呼び出しています yobidashiteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 呼び出したい yobidashitai | 呼び出したいです yobidashitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 呼び出そう yobidasou | 呼び出しましょう yobidashimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 呼び出せる yobidaseru | 呼び出せます yobidasemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 呼び出される yobidasareru | 呼び出されます yobidasaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 呼び出させる yobidasaseru | 呼び出させます yobidasasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 呼び出させられる yobidasaserareru | 呼び出させられます yobidasaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 呼び出せ yobidase | 呼び出してください yobidashitekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 呼び出すな yobidasuna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 呼び出せば yobidaseba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 呼び出したら yobidashitara | — | “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.