狂わせる
くるわせる
verb (ichidan)
to throw off; to upset; to drive mad
Conjugation
| Affirmative | Negative | |
|---|---|---|
| Present | 狂わせる | 狂わせない |
| Present polite | 狂わせます | 狂わせません |
| Past | 狂わせた | 狂わせなかった |
| Past polite | 狂わせました | 狂わせませんでした |
| て form | 狂わせて | 狂わせなくて |
| ている present | 狂わせている | 狂わせていない |
| ている polite | 狂わせています | 狂わせていません |
| ている past | 狂わせていた | 狂わせていなかった |
| ている past polite | 狂わせていました | 狂わせていませんでした |
| Conditional ば | 狂わせれば | 狂わせなければ |
| Conditional たら | 狂わせたら | 狂わせなかったら |
| Volitional | 狂わせよう | — |
| Volitional polite | 狂わせましょう | — |
| Potential | 狂わせられる | 狂わせられない |
| Passive | 狂わせられる | 狂わせられない |
| Causative | 狂わせさせる | 狂わせさせない |
| Imperative | 狂わせろ | 狂わせるな |
1.
to throw off; to upset; to disrupt
To knock something out of its proper working order — a schedule, a rhythm, a calculation, a machine. This is the everyday use and covers most cases.
2.
to drive mad; to derange; to infatuate
To rob someone of their reason, whether through obsession, love, or shock. Strong and often dramatic; 人生を狂わせる (to ruin someone's life) sits between the two senses.
Transitivity
- Transitive, the causative-style pair of the intransitive 狂う (to go mad; to go wrong). 時計が狂う = the clock is off; 時計を狂わせる = to make the clock go off.
Common collocations
- 予定を狂わせる: to throw off a schedule
- 調子を狂わせる: to upset one's form or condition
- 人生を狂わせる: to ruin someone's life
Usage
- The subject is usually the disruptive force rather than a deliberate agent — weather, greed, an accident — so it often translates best as "threw off" or "derailed" rather than a plain "made".