片寄る (katayoru) conjugation
to be one-sided, to incline, to be partial
片寄る (かたよる, katayoru) 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 | 片寄る katayoru | 片寄ります katayorimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 片寄らない katayoranai | 片寄りません katayorimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 片寄った katayotta | 片寄りました katayorimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 片寄らなかった katayoranakatta | 片寄りませんでした katayorimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 片寄って katayotte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 片寄っている katayotteiru | 片寄っています katayotteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 片寄りたい katayoritai | 片寄りたいです katayoritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 片寄ろう katayorou | 片寄りましょう katayorimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 片寄れる katayoreru | 片寄れます katayoremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 片寄られる katayorareru | 片寄られます katayoraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 片寄らせる katayoraseru | 片寄らせます katayorasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 片寄らされる katayorasareru | 片寄らされます katayorasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 片寄れ katayore | 片寄ってください katayottekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 片寄るな katayoruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 片寄れば katayoreba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 片寄ったら katayottara | — | “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.