準じる (junjiru) conjugation
to follow, to conform, to apply to
準じる (じゅんじる, junjiru) 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 | 準じる junjiru | 準じます junjimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 準じない junjinai | 準じません junjimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 準じた junjita | 準じました junjimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 準じなかった junjinakatta | 準じませんでした junjimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 準じて junjite | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 準じている junjiteiru | 準じています junjiteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 準じたい junjitai | 準じたいです junjitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 準じよう junjiyou | 準じましょう junjimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 準じられる junjirareru | 準じられます junjiraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 準じられる junjirareru | 準じられます junjiraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 準じさせる junjisaseru | 準じさせます junjisasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 準じさせられる junjisaserareru | 準じさせられます junjisaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 準じろ junjiro | 準じてください junjitekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 準じるな junjiruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 準じれば junjireba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 準じたら junjitara | — | “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.
