贈る (okuru) conjugation
to present, to give to, to award to
贈る (おくる, okuru) 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 | 贈る okuru | 贈ります okurimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 贈らない okuranai | 贈りません okurimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 贈った okutta | 贈りました okurimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 贈らなかった okuranakatta | 贈りませんでした okurimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 贈って okutte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 贈っている okutteiru | 贈っています okutteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 贈りたい okuritai | 贈りたいです okuritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 贈ろう okurou | 贈りましょう okurimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 贈れる okureru | 贈れます okuremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 贈られる okurareru | 贈られます okuraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 贈らせる okuraseru | 贈らせます okurasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 贈らされる okurasareru | 贈らされます okurasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 贈れ okure | 贈ってください okuttekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 贈るな okuruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 贈れば okureba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 贈ったら okuttara | — | “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.