配る (kubaru) conjugation
to distribute, to deliver
配る (くばる, kubaru) 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 | 配る kubaru | 配ります kubarimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 配らない kubaranai | 配りません kubarimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 配った kubatta | 配りました kubarimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 配らなかった kubaranakatta | 配りませんでした kubarimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 配って kubatte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 配っている kubatteiru | 配っています kubatteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 配りたい kubaritai | 配りたいです kubaritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 配ろう kubarou | 配りましょう kubarimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 配れる kubareru | 配れます kubaremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 配られる kubarareru | 配られます kubararemasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 配らせる kubaraseru | 配らせます kubarasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 配らされる kubarasareru | 配らされます kubarasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 配れ kubare | 配ってください kubattekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 配るな kubaruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 配れば kubareba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 配ったら kubattara | — | “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.