押し切る (oshikiru) conjugation
to have one's own way
押し切る (おしきる, oshikiru) 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 | 押し切る oshikiru | 押し切ります oshikirimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 押し切らない oshikiranai | 押し切りません oshikirimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 押し切った oshikitta | 押し切りました oshikirimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 押し切らなかった oshikiranakatta | 押し切りませんでした oshikirimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 押し切って oshikitte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 押し切っている oshikitteiru | 押し切っています oshikitteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 押し切りたい oshikiritai | 押し切りたいです oshikiritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 押し切ろう oshikirou | 押し切りましょう oshikirimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 押し切れる oshikireru | 押し切れます oshikiremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 押し切られる oshikirareru | 押し切られます oshikiraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 押し切らせる oshikiraseru | 押し切らせます oshikirasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 押し切らされる oshikirasareru | 押し切らされます oshikirasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 押し切れ oshikire | 押し切ってください oshikittekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 押し切るな oshikiruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 押し切れば oshikireba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 押し切ったら oshikittara | — | “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.