着飾る (kikazaru) conjugation
to dress up
着飾る (きかざる, kikazaru) 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 | 着飾る kikazaru | 着飾ります kikazarimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 着飾らない kikazaranai | 着飾りません kikazarimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 着飾った kikazatta | 着飾りました kikazarimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 着飾らなかった kikazaranakatta | 着飾りませんでした kikazarimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 着飾って kikazatte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 着飾っている kikazatteiru | 着飾っています kikazatteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 着飾りたい kikazaritai | 着飾りたいです kikazaritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 着飾ろう kikazarou | 着飾りましょう kikazarimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 着飾れる kikazareru | 着飾れます kikazaremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 着飾られる kikazarareru | 着飾られます kikazararemasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 着飾らせる kikazaraseru | 着飾らせます kikazarasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 着飾らされる kikazarasareru | 着飾らされます kikazarasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 着飾れ kikazare | 着飾ってください kikazattekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 着飾るな kikazaruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 着飾れば kikazareba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 着飾ったら kikazattara | — | “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.