貼る (haru) conjugation
to post; to paste; to attach
貼る (はる, haru) 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 | 貼る haru | 貼ります harimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 貼らない haranai | 貼りません harimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 貼った hatta | 貼りました harimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 貼らなかった haranakatta | 貼りませんでした harimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 貼って hatte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 貼っている hatteiru | 貼っています hatteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 貼りたい haritai | 貼りたいです haritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 貼ろう harou | 貼りましょう harimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 貼れる hareru | 貼れます haremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 貼られる harareru | 貼られます hararemasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 貼らせる haraseru | 貼らせます harasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 貼らされる harasareru | 貼らされます harasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 貼れ hare | 貼ってください hattekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 貼るな haruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 貼れば hareba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 貼ったら hattara | — | “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.