散らかる (chirakaru) conjugation
to be in disorder
散らかる (ちらかる, chirakaru) 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 | 散らかる chirakaru | 散らかります chirakarimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 散らからない chirakaranai | 散らかりません chirakarimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 散らかった chirakatta | 散らかりました chirakarimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 散らからなかった chirakaranakatta | 散らかりませんでした chirakarimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 散らかって chirakatte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 散らかっている chirakatteiru | 散らかっています chirakatteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 散らかりたい chirakaritai | 散らかりたいです chirakaritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 散らかろう chirakarou | 散らかりましょう chirakarimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 散らかれる chirakareru | 散らかれます chirakaremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 散らかられる chirakarareru | 散らかられます chirakararemasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 散らからせる chirakaraseru | 散らからせます chirakarasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 散らからされる chirakarasareru | 散らからされます chirakarasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 散らかれ chirakare | 散らかってください chirakattekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 散らかるな chirakaruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 散らかれば chirakareba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 散らかったら chirakattara | — | “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.