改まる (aratamaru) conjugation
to be renewed; to be formal
改まる (あらたまる, aratamaru) 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 | 改まる aratamaru | 改まります aratamarimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 改まらない aratamaranai | 改まりません aratamarimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 改まった aratamatta | 改まりました aratamarimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 改まらなかった aratamaranakatta | 改まりませんでした aratamarimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 改まって aratamatte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 改まっている aratamatteiru | 改まっています aratamatteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 改まりたい aratamaritai | 改まりたいです aratamaritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 改まろう aratamarou | 改まりましょう aratamarimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 改まれる aratamareru | 改まれます aratamaremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 改まられる aratamarareru | 改まられます aratamararemasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 改まらせる aratamaraseru | 改まらせます aratamarasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 改まらされる aratamarasareru | 改まらされます aratamarasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 改まれ aratamare | 改まってください aratamattekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 改まるな aratamaruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 改まれば aratamareba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 改まったら aratamattara | — | “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.