興じる (kyoujiru) conjugation
to amuse oneself, to make merry
興じる (きょうじる, kyoujiru) is an ichidan verb. Ichidan verbs are the tidy ones: drop the final る and add the ending. Nothing inside the word ever changes. 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 | 興じる kyoujiru | 興じます kyoujimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 興じない kyoujinai | 興じません kyoujimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 興じた kyoujita | 興じました kyoujimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 興じなかった kyoujinakatta | 興じませんでした kyoujimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 興じて kyoujite | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 興じている kyoujiteiru | 興じています kyoujiteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 興じたい kyoujitai | 興じたいです kyoujitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 興じよう kyoujiyou | 興じましょう kyoujimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 興じられる kyoujirareru | 興じられます kyoujiraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 興じられる kyoujirareru | 興じられます kyoujiraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 興じさせる kyoujisaseru | 興じさせます kyoujisasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 興じさせられる kyoujisaserareru | 興じさせられます kyoujisaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 興じろ kyoujiro | 興じてください kyoujitekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 興じるな kyoujiruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 興じれば kyoujireba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 興じたら kyoujitara | — | “if / when ~”. The everyday conditional. |
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Why it conjugates this way
Ichidan verbs are the tidy ones: drop the final る and add the ending. Nothing inside the word ever changes.
See the full rules on the verb conjugation guide.
