演じる (enjiru) conjugation
to perform, to play (a part), to act
演じる (えんじる, enjiru) 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 | 演じる enjiru | 演じます enjimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 演じない enjinai | 演じません enjimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 演じた enjita | 演じました enjimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 演じなかった enjinakatta | 演じませんでした enjimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 演じて enjite | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 演じている enjiteiru | 演じています enjiteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 演じたい enjitai | 演じたいです enjitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 演じよう enjiyou | 演じましょう enjimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 演じられる enjirareru | 演じられます enjiraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 演じられる enjirareru | 演じられます enjiraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 演じさせる enjisaseru | 演じさせます enjisasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 演じさせられる enjisaserareru | 演じさせられます enjisaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 演じろ enjiro | 演じてください enjitekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 演じるな enjiruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 演じれば enjireba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 演じたら enjitara | — | “if / when ~”. The everyday conditional. |
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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.