誇る (hokoru) conjugation
to boast of, to be proud of
誇る (ほこる, hokoru) 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 | 誇る hokoru | 誇ります hokorimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 誇らない hokoranai | 誇りません hokorimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 誇った hokotta | 誇りました hokorimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 誇らなかった hokoranakatta | 誇りませんでした hokorimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 誇って hokotte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 誇っている hokotteiru | 誇っています hokotteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 誇りたい hokoritai | 誇りたいです hokoritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 誇ろう hokorou | 誇りましょう hokorimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 誇れる hokoreru | 誇れます hokoremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 誇られる hokorareru | 誇られます hokoraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 誇らせる hokoraseru | 誇らせます hokorasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 誇らされる hokorasareru | 誇らされます hokorasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 誇れ hokore | 誇ってください hokottekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 誇るな hokoruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 誇れば hokoreba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 誇ったら hokottara | — | “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.