葬る (houmuru) conjugation
to bury, to entomb
葬る (ほうむる, houmuru) 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 | 葬る houmuru | 葬ります houmurimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 葬らない houmuranai | 葬りません houmurimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 葬った houmutta | 葬りました houmurimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 葬らなかった houmuranakatta | 葬りませんでした houmurimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 葬って houmutte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 葬っている houmutteiru | 葬っています houmutteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 葬りたい houmuritai | 葬りたいです houmuritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 葬ろう houmurou | 葬りましょう houmurimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 葬れる houmureru | 葬れます houmuremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 葬られる houmurareru | 葬られます houmuraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 葬らせる houmuraseru | 葬らせます houmurasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 葬らされる houmurasareru | 葬らされます houmurasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 葬れ houmure | 葬ってください houmuttekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 葬るな houmuruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 葬れば houmureba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 葬ったら houmuttara | — | “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.