報じる (houjiru) conjugation
to inform, to report
報じる (ほうじる, houjiru) 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 | 報じる houjiru | 報じます houjimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 報じない houjinai | 報じません houjimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 報じた houjita | 報じました houjimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 報じなかった houjinakatta | 報じませんでした houjimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 報じて houjite | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 報じている houjiteiru | 報じています houjiteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 報じたい houjitai | 報じたいです houjitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 報じよう houjiyou | 報じましょう houjimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 報じられる houjirareru | 報じられます houjiraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 報じられる houjirareru | 報じられます houjiraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 報じさせる houjisaseru | 報じさせます houjisasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 報じさせられる houjisaserareru | 報じさせられます houjisaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 報じろ houjiro | 報じてください houjitekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 報じるな houjiruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 報じれば houjireba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 報じたら houjitara | — | “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.