区切る (kugiru) conjugation
to punctuate, to cut off, to mark off
区切る (くぎる, kugiru) 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 | 区切る kugiru | 区切ります kugirimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 区切らない kugiranai | 区切りません kugirimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 区切った kugitta | 区切りました kugirimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 区切らなかった kugiranakatta | 区切りませんでした kugirimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 区切って kugitte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 区切っている kugitteiru | 区切っています kugitteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 区切りたい kugiritai | 区切りたいです kugiritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 区切ろう kugirou | 区切りましょう kugirimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 区切れる kugireru | 区切れます kugiremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 区切られる kugirareru | 区切られます kugiraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 区切らせる kugiraseru | 区切らせます kugirasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 区切らされる kugirasareru | 区切らされます kugirasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 区切れ kugire | 区切ってください kugittekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 区切るな kugiruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 区切れば kugireba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 区切ったら kugittara | — | “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.