曇る (kumoru) conjugation
to become cloudy, to become dim
曇る (くもる, kumoru) 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 | 曇る kumoru | 曇ります kumorimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 曇らない kumoranai | 曇りません kumorimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 曇った kumotta | 曇りました kumorimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 曇らなかった kumoranakatta | 曇りませんでした kumorimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 曇って kumotte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 曇っている kumotteiru | 曇っています kumotteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 曇りたい kumoritai | 曇りたいです kumoritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 曇ろう kumorou | 曇りましょう kumorimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 曇れる kumoreru | 曇れます kumoremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 曇られる kumorareru | 曇られます kumoraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 曇らせる kumoraseru | 曇らせます kumorasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 曇らされる kumorasareru | 曇らされます kumorasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 曇れ kumore | 曇ってください kumottekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 曇るな kumoruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 曇れば kumoreba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 曇ったら kumottara | — | “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.