広がる (hirogaru) conjugation
to spread (out), to extend, to stretch, to reach to, to get around
広がる (ひろがる, hirogaru) 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 | 広がる hirogaru | 広がります hirogarimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 広がらない hirogaranai | 広がりません hirogarimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 広がった hirogatta | 広がりました hirogarimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 広がらなかった hirogaranakatta | 広がりませんでした hirogarimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 広がって hirogatte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 広がっている hirogatteiru | 広がっています hirogatteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 広がりたい hirogaritai | 広がりたいです hirogaritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 広がろう hirogarou | 広がりましょう hirogarimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 広がれる hirogareru | 広がれます hirogaremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 広がられる hirogarareru | 広がられます hirogararemasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 広がらせる hirogaraseru | 広がらせます hirogarasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 広がらされる hirogarasareru | 広がらされます hirogarasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 広がれ hirogare | 広がってください hirogattekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 広がるな hirogaruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 広がれば hirogareba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 広がったら hirogattara | — | “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.