巡る (meguru) conjugation
to go around
巡る (めぐる, meguru) 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 | 巡る meguru | 巡ります megurimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 巡らない meguranai | 巡りません megurimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 巡った megutta | 巡りました megurimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 巡らなかった meguranakatta | 巡りませんでした megurimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 巡って megutte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 巡っている megutteiru | 巡っています megutteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 巡りたい meguritai | 巡りたいです meguritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 巡ろう megurou | 巡りましょう megurimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 巡れる megureru | 巡れます meguremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 巡られる megurareru | 巡られます meguraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 巡らせる meguraseru | 巡らせます megurasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 巡らされる megurasareru | 巡らされます megurasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 巡れ megure | 巡ってください meguttekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 巡るな meguruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 巡れば megureba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 巡ったら meguttara | — | “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.