盛る (moru) conjugation
to serve (food); to fill up; to prescribe
盛る (もる, moru) 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 | 盛る moru | 盛ります morimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 盛らない moranai | 盛りません morimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 盛った motta | 盛りました morimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 盛らなかった moranakatta | 盛りませんでした morimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 盛って motte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 盛っている motteiru | 盛っています motteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 盛りたい moritai | 盛りたいです moritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 盛ろう morou | 盛りましょう morimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 盛れる moreru | 盛れます moremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 盛られる morareru | 盛られます moraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 盛らせる moraseru | 盛らせます morasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 盛らされる morasareru | 盛らされます morasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 盛れ more | 盛ってください mottekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 盛るな moruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 盛れば moreba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 盛ったら mottara | — | “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.