揺らぐ (yuragu) conjugation
to swing, to sway, to shake
揺らぐ (ゆらぐ, yuragu) 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 | 揺らぐ yuragu | 揺らぎます yuragimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 揺らがない yuraganai | 揺らぎません yuragimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 揺らいだ yuraida | 揺らぎました yuragimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 揺らがなかった yuraganakatta | 揺らぎませんでした yuragimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 揺らいで yuraide | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 揺らいでいる yuraideiru | 揺らいでいます yuraideimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 揺らぎたい yuragitai | 揺らぎたいです yuragitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 揺らごう yuragou | 揺らぎましょう yuragimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 揺らげる yurageru | 揺らげます yuragemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 揺らがれる yuragareru | 揺らがれます yuragaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 揺らがせる yuragaseru | 揺らがせます yuragasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 揺らがされる yuragasareru | 揺らがされます yuragasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 揺らげ yurage | 揺らいでください yuraidekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 揺らぐな yuraguna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 揺らげば yurageba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 揺らいだら yuraidara | — | “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.