満ちる (michiru) conjugation
to be full, to mature
満ちる (みちる, michiru) 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 | 満ちる michiru | 満ちます michimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 満ちない michinai | 満ちません michimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 満ちた michita | 満ちました michimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 満ちなかった michinakatta | 満ちませんでした michimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 満ちて michite | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 満ちている michiteiru | 満ちています michiteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 満ちたい michitai | 満ちたいです michitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 満ちよう michiyou | 満ちましょう michimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 満ちられる michirareru | 満ちられます michiraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 満ちられる michirareru | 満ちられます michiraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 満ちさせる michisaseru | 満ちさせます michisasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 満ちさせられる michisaserareru | 満ちさせられます michisaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 満ちろ michiro | 満ちてください michitekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 満ちるな michiruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 満ちれば michireba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 満ちたら michitara | — | “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.