気に入る (kiniiru) conjugation
to like, to be please
気に入る (きにいる, kiniiru) 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 | 気に入る kiniiru | 気に入ります kiniirimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 気に入らない kiniiranai | 気に入りません kiniirimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 気に入った kiniitta | 気に入りました kiniirimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 気に入らなかった kiniiranakatta | 気に入りませんでした kiniirimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 気に入って kiniitte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 気に入っている kiniitteiru | 気に入っています kiniitteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 気に入りたい kiniiritai | 気に入りたいです kiniiritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 気に入ろう kiniirou | 気に入りましょう kiniirimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 気に入れる kiniireru | 気に入れます kiniiremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 気に入られる kiniirareru | 気に入られます kiniiraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 気に入らせる kiniiraseru | 気に入らせます kiniirasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 気に入らされる kiniirasareru | 気に入らされます kiniirasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 気に入れ kiniire | 気に入ってください kiniittekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 気に入るな kiniiruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 気に入れば kiniireba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 気に入ったら kiniittara | — | “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.