斬る (kiru) conjugation
to behead, to murder
斬る (きる, kiru) 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 | 斬る kiru | 斬ります kirimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 斬らない kiranai | 斬りません kirimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 斬った kitta | 斬りました kirimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 斬らなかった kiranakatta | 斬りませんでした kirimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 斬って kitte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 斬っている kitteiru | 斬っています kitteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 斬りたい kiritai | 斬りたいです kiritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 斬ろう kirou | 斬りましょう kirimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 斬れる kireru | 斬れます kiremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 斬られる kirareru | 斬られます kiraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 斬らせる kiraseru | 斬らせます kirasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 斬らされる kirasareru | 斬らされます kirasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 斬れ kire | 斬ってください kittekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 斬るな kiruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 斬れば kireba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 斬ったら kittara | — | “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.