飾る (kazaru) conjugation
to decorate, to adorn
飾る (かざる, kazaru) 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 | 飾る kazaru | 飾ります kazarimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 飾らない kazaranai | 飾りません kazarimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 飾った kazatta | 飾りました kazarimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 飾らなかった kazaranakatta | 飾りませんでした kazarimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 飾って kazatte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 飾っている kazatteiru | 飾っています kazatteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 飾りたい kazaritai | 飾りたいです kazaritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 飾ろう kazarou | 飾りましょう kazarimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 飾れる kazareru | 飾れます kazaremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 飾られる kazarareru | 飾られます kazararemasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 飾らせる kazaraseru | 飾らせます kazarasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 飾らされる kazarasareru | 飾らされます kazarasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 飾れ kazare | 飾ってください kazattekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 飾るな kazaruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 飾れば kazareba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 飾ったら kazattara | — | “if / when ~”. The everyday conditional. |
🔊 Tap any Japanese word to hear it spoken.
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.