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JAPANESE VERB

はげます

励ます

to encourage

  • #244 most used
  • Godan verb (u-verb)

Conjugation

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Present and future

now, habits, and what is to come

Form Polite Plain
AffirmativeI encourage
NegativeI don’t encourage

Past

finished actions

Form Polite Plain
AffirmativeI encouraged
NegativeI didn’t encourage

Te-form

て形 · joining actions, “doing”, requests

Form Polite Plain
て-formencouraging, and…
Doing now (て います)I am encouraging
Please (て ください)please encourage

Potential

可能形 · “can”

Form Polite Plain
AffirmativeI can encourage
NegativeI can’t encourage

Want to

たい形 · “want to”

Form Polite Plain
AffirmativeI want to encourage
NegativeI don’t want to encourage

Volitional

意向形 · “let’s”, “I’ll”

Form Polite Plain
Let’slet’s encourage

Conditional

条件形 · “if” and “when”

  1. If (ば) if I encourage
  2. If, when (たら) if I encourage

Commands and requests

命令形 · from gentle to blunt

  1. Do it (なさい) encourage (do it)
  2. Plain command encourage!
  3. Please don’t please don’t encourage

Passive and causative

受身形・使役形 · “is done”, “make someone do”

Form Polite Plain
PassiveI am encouraged
CausativeI make someone encourage

How to use はげます

One sentence for each tense, the way people say it.

  1. Present and future

    しあい の まえ、 コーチ は いつも せんしゅ を はげまします。

    Before a match, the coach always encourages the players.

  2. Past

    おちこんで いる ともだち を、 でんわ で はげました。

    I cheered up a friend who was feeling down over the phone.

  3. Te-form

    ベン は びょうき の はは を、 てがみ で はげまして いる。

    Ben is encouraging his sick mother with letters.

  4. Potential

    なんて いえば、 かれ を はげませる だろう。

    What could I say to cheer him up?

  5. Want to

    しけん に おちた いもうと を、 はげましたい。

    I want to encourage my little sister, who failed the exam.

  6. Volitional

    みんな で けんた を はげまそう。

    Let's all cheer Kenta on.

  7. Conditional

    はげませば、 また がんばれる と おもう。

    If I encourage him, I think he can try again.

  8. Commands and requests

    わらわないで、 おとうと を はげましなさい。

    Don't laugh, encourage your little brother.

  9. Passive and causative

    どうりょう に はげまされて、 げんき が でた。

    My colleagues encouraged me and I got my energy back.

Good to know

  • がんばって is the word people use to encourage each other.

Verbs like this one

The same pattern, on other verbs: godan verb (u-verb).