織る (oru) conjugation
to weave
織る (おる, oru) 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 | 織る oru | 織ります orimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 織らない oranai | 織りません orimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 織った otta | 織りました orimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 織らなかった oranakatta | 織りませんでした orimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 織って otte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 織っている otteiru | 織っています otteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 織りたい oritai | 織りたいです oritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 織ろう orou | 織りましょう orimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 織れる oreru | 織れます oremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 織られる orareru | 織られます oraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 織らせる oraseru | 織らせます orasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 織らされる orasareru | 織らされます orasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 織れ ore | 織ってください ottekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 織るな oruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 織れば oreba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 織ったら ottara | — | “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.