Godan verb (く)

裂くさく

saku

to tear · N2

Also read さく: 咲く (bloom). All 2 words

裂く (さく, saku) — to tear — is a godan verb ending in く: 裂いて (te-form), 裂いた (past), 裂かない (negative), 裂きます (polite).

It is transitive: it takes a direct object. It also means to rip up.

How 裂く conjugates · godan く-verb

Only the last kana changes: く becomes か, き, け or こ.

Which one depends on the ending. The five are one line of the hiragana chart — same consonant, vowels あ・い・う・え・お — and everything before that kana never changes.

か裂かないnegative

き裂きますpolite present

く裂くdictionary form

け裂けるpotential裂けばif

こ裂こうvolitional

The て and た forms · く → いて, いたい裂いてte-form裂いたpast

The て and た forms are the only two that don't follow this pattern. Every く- and ぐ-verb changes the same way there; only 行く is different.

N5 N tags give the JLPT level at which the game starts quizzing a form.

Aa Dimmed forms are too rare in everyday Japanese for the game to quiz.

PLAIN

Form	Conjugation	Audio
present N5	裂くさく saku
past N5 I tore it.	裂いたさいた saita
negative N5 I don't tear it.	裂かないさかない sakanai
te-form N5 I tear it and …	裂いてさいて saite
past negative N4 I didn't tear it.	裂かなかったさかなかった sakanakatta
volitional N4 Let's tear it.	裂こうさこう sakou
potential N3 I can tear it.	裂けるさける sakeru
cond. ば N3 If I tear it, ...	裂けばさけば sakeba
cond. たら N3 When I tear it, ...	裂いたらさいたら saitara
passive N2 It gets torn.	裂かれるさかれる sakareru
causative N2 I make someone tear it.	裂かせるさかせる sakaseru
imperative N1	裂けさけ sake

POLITE

Form	Conjugation	Audio
present N5	裂きますさきます sakimasu
past N5 I tore it.	裂きましたさきました sakimashita
negative N5 I don't tear it.	裂きませんさきません sakimasen
past negative N4 I didn't tear it.	裂きませんでしたさきませんでした sakimasendeshita
volitional N4 Let's tear it.	裂きましょうさきましょう sakimashou

ASPECT

Form	Conjugation	Audio
ている N4 I'm tearing it.	裂いているさいている saiteiru
ていた N4 I was tearing it.	裂いていたさいていた saiteita
ています N4 I'm tearing it.	裂いていますさいています saiteimasu
ていました N4 I was tearing it.	裂いていましたさいていました saiteimashita