案じる (anjiru) conjugation
to be anxious, to ponder
案じる (あんじる, anjiru) is an ichidan verb. Ichidan verbs are the tidy ones: drop the final る and add the ending. Nothing inside the word ever changes. 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 | 案じる anjiru | 案じます anjimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 案じない anjinai | 案じません anjimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 案じた anjita | 案じました anjimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 案じなかった anjinakatta | 案じませんでした anjimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 案じて anjite | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 案じている anjiteiru | 案じています anjiteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 案じたい anjitai | 案じたいです anjitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 案じよう anjiyou | 案じましょう anjimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 案じられる anjirareru | 案じられます anjiraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 案じられる anjirareru | 案じられます anjiraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 案じさせる anjisaseru | 案じさせます anjisasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 案じさせられる anjisaserareru | 案じさせられます anjisaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 案じろ anjiro | 案じてください anjitekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 案じるな anjiruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 案じれば anjireba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 案じたら anjitara | — | “if / when ~”. The everyday conditional. |
🔊 Tap any Japanese word to hear it spoken.
Why it conjugates this way
Ichidan verbs are the tidy ones: drop the final る and add the ending. Nothing inside the word ever changes.
See the full rules on the verb conjugation guide.