当たる (ataru) conjugation
to be hit, to be successful
当たる (あたる, ataru) 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 | 当たる ataru | 当たります atarimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 当たらない ataranai | 当たりません atarimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 当たった atatta | 当たりました atarimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 当たらなかった ataranakatta | 当たりませんでした atarimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 当たって atatte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 当たっている atatteiru | 当たっています atatteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 当たりたい ataritai | 当たりたいです ataritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 当たろう atarou | 当たりましょう atarimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 当たれる atareru | 当たれます ataremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 当たられる atarareru | 当たられます atararemasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 当たらせる ataraseru | 当たらせます atarasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 当たらされる atarasareru | 当たらされます atarasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 当たれ atare | 当たってください atattekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 当たるな ataruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 当たれば atareba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 当たったら atattara | — | “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.