踊る (odoru) conjugation
to dance
踊る (おどる, odoru) 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 | 踊る odoru | 踊ります odorimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 踊らない odoranai | 踊りません odorimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 踊った odotta | 踊りました odorimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 踊らなかった odoranakatta | 踊りませんでした odorimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 踊って odotte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 踊っている odotteiru | 踊っています odotteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 踊りたい odoritai | 踊りたいです odoritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 踊ろう odorou | 踊りましょう odorimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 踊れる odoreru | 踊れます odoremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 踊られる odorareru | 踊られます odoraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 踊らせる odoraseru | 踊らせます odorasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 踊らされる odorasareru | 踊らされます odorasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 踊れ odore | 踊ってください odottekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 踊るな odoruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 踊れば odoreba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 踊ったら odottara | — | “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.