命じる (meijiru) conjugation
to order, to command, to appoint
命じる (めいじる, meijiru) 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 | 命じる meijiru | 命じます meijimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 命じない meijinai | 命じません meijimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 命じた meijita | 命じました meijimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 命じなかった meijinakatta | 命じませんでした meijimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 命じて meijite | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 命じている meijiteiru | 命じています meijiteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 命じたい meijitai | 命じたいです meijitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 命じよう meijiyou | 命じましょう meijimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 命じられる meijirareru | 命じられます meijiraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 命じられる meijirareru | 命じられます meijiraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 命じさせる meijisaseru | 命じさせます meijisasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 命じさせられる meijisaserareru | 命じさせられます meijisaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 命じろ meijiro | 命じてください meijitekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 命じるな meijiruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 命じれば meijireba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 命じたら meijitara | — | “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.
