感じる (kanjiru) conjugation
to feel, to sense
感じる (かんじる, kanjiru) 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 | 感じる kanjiru | 感じます kanjimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 感じない kanjinai | 感じません kanjimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 感じた kanjita | 感じました kanjimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 感じなかった kanjinakatta | 感じませんでした kanjimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 感じて kanjite | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 感じている kanjiteiru | 感じています kanjiteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 感じたい kanjitai | 感じたいです kanjitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 感じよう kanjiyou | 感じましょう kanjimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 感じられる kanjirareru | 感じられます kanjiraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 感じられる kanjirareru | 感じられます kanjiraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 感じさせる kanjisaseru | 感じさせます kanjisasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 感じさせられる kanjisaserareru | 感じさせられます kanjisaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 感じろ kanjiro | 感じてください kanjitekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 感じるな kanjiruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 感じれば kanjireba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 感じたら kanjitara | — | “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.