怒鳴る (donaru) conjugation
to shout, to yell
怒鳴る (どなる, donaru) 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 | 怒鳴る donaru | 怒鳴ります donarimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 怒鳴らない donaranai | 怒鳴りません donarimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 怒鳴った donatta | 怒鳴りました donarimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 怒鳴らなかった donaranakatta | 怒鳴りませんでした donarimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 怒鳴って donatte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 怒鳴っている donatteiru | 怒鳴っています donatteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 怒鳴りたい donaritai | 怒鳴りたいです donaritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 怒鳴ろう donarou | 怒鳴りましょう donarimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 怒鳴れる donareru | 怒鳴れます donaremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 怒鳴られる donarareru | 怒鳴られます donararemasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 怒鳴らせる donaraseru | 怒鳴らせます donarasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 怒鳴らされる donarasareru | 怒鳴らされます donarasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 怒鳴れ donare | 怒鳴ってください donattekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 怒鳴るな donaruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 怒鳴れば donareba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 怒鳴ったら donattara | — | “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.