降る (furu) conjugation
to precipitate, to fall (e.g., rain, snow, etc.)
降る (ふる, furu) 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 | 降る furu | 降ります furimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 降らない furanai | 降りません furimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 降った futta | 降りました furimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 降らなかった furanakatta | 降りませんでした furimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 降って futte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 降っている futteiru | 降っています futteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 降りたい furitai | 降りたいです furitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 降ろう furou | 降りましょう furimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 降れる fureru | 降れます furemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 降られる furareru | 降られます furaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 降らせる furaseru | 降らせます furasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 降らされる furasareru | 降らされます furasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 降れ fure | 降ってください futtekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 降るな furuna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 降れば fureba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 降ったら futtara | — | “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.