乗っ取る (nottoru) conjugation
to capture, to occupy, to take over
乗っ取る (のっとる, nottoru) 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 | 乗っ取る nottoru | 乗っ取ります nottorimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 乗っ取らない nottoranai | 乗っ取りません nottorimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 乗っ取った nottotta | 乗っ取りました nottorimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 乗っ取らなかった nottoranakatta | 乗っ取りませんでした nottorimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 乗っ取って nottotte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 乗っ取っている nottotteiru | 乗っ取っています nottotteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 乗っ取りたい nottoritai | 乗っ取りたいです nottoritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 乗っ取ろう nottorou | 乗っ取りましょう nottorimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 乗っ取れる nottoreru | 乗っ取れます nottoremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 乗っ取られる nottorareru | 乗っ取られます nottoraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 乗っ取らせる nottoraseru | 乗っ取らせます nottorasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 乗っ取らされる nottorasareru | 乗っ取らされます nottorasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 乗っ取れ nottore | 乗っ取ってください nottottekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 乗っ取るな nottoruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 乗っ取れば nottoreba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 乗っ取ったら nottottara | — | “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.