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