重んじる (omonjiru) conjugation
to respect, to honor, to esteem, to prize
重んじる (おもんじる, omonjiru) 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 | 重んじる omonjiru | 重んじます omonjimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 重んじない omonjinai | 重んじません omonjimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 重んじた omonjita | 重んじました omonjimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 重んじなかった omonjinakatta | 重んじませんでした omonjimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 重んじて omonjite | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 重んじている omonjiteiru | 重んじています omonjiteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 重んじたい omonjitai | 重んじたいです omonjitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 重んじよう omonjiyou | 重んじましょう omonjimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 重んじられる omonjirareru | 重んじられます omonjiraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 重んじられる omonjirareru | 重んじられます omonjiraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 重んじさせる omonjisaseru | 重んじさせます omonjisasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 重んじさせられる omonjisaserareru | 重んじさせられます omonjisaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 重んじろ omonjiro | 重んじてください omonjitekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 重んじるな omonjiruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 重んじれば omonjireba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 重んじたら omonjitara | — | “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.