転ぶ (korobu) conjugation
to fall down, to fall over
転ぶ (ころぶ, korobu) 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 | 転ぶ korobu | 転びます korobimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 転ばない korobanai | 転びません korobimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 転んだ koronda | 転びました korobimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 転ばなかった korobanakatta | 転びませんでした korobimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 転んで koronde | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 転んでいる korondeiru | 転んでいます korondeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 転びたい korobitai | 転びたいです korobitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 転ぼう korobou | 転びましょう korobimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 転べる koroberu | 転べます korobemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 転ばれる korobareru | 転ばれます korobaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 転ばせる korobaseru | 転ばせます korobasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 転ばされる korobasareru | 転ばされます korobasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 転べ korobe | 転んでください korondekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 転ぶな korobuna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 転べば korobeba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 転んだら korondara | — | “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.