炒る (iru) conjugation
to parch, to roast
炒る (いる, iru) 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 | 炒る iru | 炒ります irimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 炒らない iranai | 炒りません irimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 炒った itta | 炒りました irimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 炒らなかった iranakatta | 炒りませんでした irimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 炒って itte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 炒っている itteiru | 炒っています itteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 炒りたい iritai | 炒りたいです iritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 炒ろう irou | 炒りましょう irimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 炒れる ireru | 炒れます iremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 炒られる irareru | 炒られます iraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 炒らせる iraseru | 炒らせます irasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 炒らされる irasareru | 炒らされます irasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 炒れ ire | 炒ってください ittekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 炒るな iruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 炒れば ireba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 炒ったら ittara | — | “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.