濁る (nigoru) conjugation
to become muddy, to get cloudy
濁る (にごる, nigoru) 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 | 濁る nigoru | 濁ります nigorimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 濁らない nigoranai | 濁りません nigorimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 濁った nigotta | 濁りました nigorimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 濁らなかった nigoranakatta | 濁りませんでした nigorimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 濁って nigotte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 濁っている nigotteiru | 濁っています nigotteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 濁りたい nigoritai | 濁りたいです nigoritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 濁ろう nigorou | 濁りましょう nigorimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 濁れる nigoreru | 濁れます nigoremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 濁られる nigorareru | 濁られます nigoraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 濁らせる nigoraseru | 濁らせます nigorasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 濁らされる nigorasareru | 濁らされます nigorasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 濁れ nigore | 濁ってください nigottekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 濁るな nigoruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 濁れば nigoreba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 濁ったら nigottara | — | “if / when ~”. The everyday conditional. |
🔊 Tap any Japanese word to hear it spoken.
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.