粘る (nebaru) conjugation
to be sticky, to be adhesive, to persist, to stick to
粘る (ねばる, nebaru) 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 | 粘る nebaru | 粘ります nebarimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 粘らない nebaranai | 粘りません nebarimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 粘った nebatta | 粘りました nebarimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 粘らなかった nebaranakatta | 粘りませんでした nebarimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 粘って nebatte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 粘っている nebatteiru | 粘っています nebatteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 粘りたい nebaritai | 粘りたいです nebaritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 粘ろう nebarou | 粘りましょう nebarimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 粘れる nebareru | 粘れます nebaremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 粘られる nebarareru | 粘られます nebararemasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 粘らせる nebaraseru | 粘らせます nebarasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 粘らされる nebarasareru | 粘らされます nebarasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 粘れ nebare | 粘ってください nebattekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 粘るな nebaruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 粘れば nebareba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 粘ったら nebattara | — | “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.