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