帯びる (obiru) conjugation
to bear, to carry, to be entrusted
帯びる (おびる, obiru) is an ichidan verb. Ichidan verbs are the tidy ones: drop the final る and add the ending. Nothing inside the word ever changes. 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 | 帯びる obiru | 帯びます obimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 帯びない obinai | 帯びません obimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 帯びた obita | 帯びました obimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 帯びなかった obinakatta | 帯びませんでした obimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 帯びて obite | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 帯びている obiteiru | 帯びています obiteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 帯びたい obitai | 帯びたいです obitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 帯びよう obiyou | 帯びましょう obimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 帯びられる obirareru | 帯びられます obiraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 帯びられる obirareru | 帯びられます obiraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 帯びさせる obisaseru | 帯びさせます obisasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 帯びさせられる obisaserareru | 帯びさせられます obisaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 帯びろ obiro | 帯びてください obitekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 帯びるな obiruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 帯びれば obireba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 帯びたら obitara | — | “if / when ~”. The everyday conditional. |
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Why it conjugates this way
Ichidan verbs are the tidy ones: drop the final る and add the ending. Nothing inside the word ever changes.
See the full rules on the verb conjugation guide.
