鳴る (naru) conjugation
to sound, to ring (v.i.)
鳴る (なる, naru) 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 | 鳴る naru | 鳴ります narimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 鳴らない naranai | 鳴りません narimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 鳴った natta | 鳴りました narimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 鳴らなかった naranakatta | 鳴りませんでした narimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 鳴って natte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 鳴っている natteiru | 鳴っています natteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 鳴りたい naritai | 鳴りたいです naritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 鳴ろう narou | 鳴りましょう narimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 鳴れる nareru | 鳴れます naremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 鳴られる narareru | 鳴られます nararemasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 鳴らせる naraseru | 鳴らせます narasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 鳴らされる narasareru | 鳴らされます narasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 鳴れ nare | 鳴ってください nattekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 鳴るな naruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 鳴れば nareba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 鳴ったら nattara | — | “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.