担う (ninau) conjugation
to carry on shoulder, to bear (burden), to shoulder (gun)
担う (になう, ninau) 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 | 担う ninau | 担います ninaimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 担わない ninawanai | 担いません ninaimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 担った ninatta | 担いました ninaimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 担わなかった ninawanakatta | 担いませんでした ninaimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 担って ninatte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 担っている ninatteiru | 担っています ninatteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 担いたい ninaitai | 担いたいです ninaitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 担おう ninaou | 担いましょう ninaimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 担える ninaeru | 担えます ninaemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 担われる ninawareru | 担われます ninawaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 担わせる ninawaseru | 担わせます ninawasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 担わされる ninawasareru | 担わされます ninawasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 担え ninae | 担ってください ninattekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 担うな ninauna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 担えば ninaeba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 担ったら ninattara | — | “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.