応じる (oujiru) conjugation
to adapt, to respond, to comply with
応じる (おうじる, oujiru) 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 | 応じる oujiru | 応じます oujimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 応じない oujinai | 応じません oujimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 応じた oujita | 応じました oujimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 応じなかった oujinakatta | 応じませんでした oujimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 応じて oujite | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 応じている oujiteiru | 応じています oujiteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 応じたい oujitai | 応じたいです oujitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 応じよう oujiyou | 応じましょう oujimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 応じられる oujirareru | 応じられます oujiraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 応じられる oujirareru | 応じられます oujiraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 応じさせる oujisaseru | 応じさせます oujisasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 応じさせられる oujisaserareru | 応じさせられます oujisaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 応じろ oujiro | 応じてください oujitekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 応じるな oujiruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 応じれば oujireba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 応じたら oujitara | — | “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.