間に合う (maniau) conjugation
to be in time for
間に合う (まにあう, maniau) 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 | 間に合う maniau | 間に合います maniaimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 間に合わない maniawanai | 間に合いません maniaimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 間に合った maniatta | 間に合いました maniaimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 間に合わなかった maniawanakatta | 間に合いませんでした maniaimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 間に合って maniatte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 間に合っている maniatteiru | 間に合っています maniatteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 間に合いたい maniaitai | 間に合いたいです maniaitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 間に合おう maniaou | 間に合いましょう maniaimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 間に合える maniaeru | 間に合えます maniaemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 間に合われる maniawareru | 間に合われます maniawaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 間に合わせる maniawaseru | 間に合わせます maniawasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 間に合わされる maniawasareru | 間に合わされます maniawasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 間に合え maniae | 間に合ってください maniattekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 間に合うな maniauna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 間に合えば maniaeba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 間に合ったら maniattara | — | “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.