来る (kuru) conjugation
to come
来る (くる, kuru) is an irregular verb. Only する and 来る are truly irregular, and every learner meets them in week one. 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 | 来る kuru | 来ます kimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 来ない konai | 来ません kimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 来た kita | 来ました kimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 来なかった konakatta | 来ませんでした kimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 来て kite | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 来ている kiteiru | 来ています kiteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 来たい kitai | 来たいです kitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 来よう koyou | 来ましょう kimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 来られる korareru | 来られます koraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 来られる korareru | 来られます koraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 来させる kosaseru | 来させます kosasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 来させられる kosaserareru | 来させられます kosaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 来い koi | 来てください kitekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 来るな kuruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 来れば kureba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 来たら kitara | — | “if / when ~”. The everyday conditional. |
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Why it conjugates this way
Only する and 来る are truly irregular, and every learner meets them in week one.
See the full rules on the verb conjugation guide.