実る (minoru) conjugation
to bear fruit, to ripen
実る (みのる, minoru) 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 | 実る minoru | 実ります minorimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 実らない minoranai | 実りません minorimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 実った minotta | 実りました minorimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 実らなかった minoranakatta | 実りませんでした minorimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 実って minotte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 実っている minotteiru | 実っています minotteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 実りたい minoritai | 実りたいです minoritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 実ろう minorou | 実りましょう minorimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 実れる minoreru | 実れます minoremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 実られる minorareru | 実られます minoraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 実らせる minoraseru | 実らせます minorasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 実らされる minorasareru | 実らされます minorasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 実れ minore | 実ってください minottekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 実るな minoruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 実れば minoreba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 実ったら minottara | — | “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.