終る (owaru) conjugation
to finish, to close
終る (おわる, owaru) 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 | 終る owaru | 終ります owarimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 終らない owaranai | 終りません owarimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 終った owatta | 終りました owarimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 終らなかった owaranakatta | 終りませんでした owarimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 終って owatte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 終っている owatteiru | 終っています owatteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 終りたい owaritai | 終りたいです owaritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 終ろう owarou | 終りましょう owarimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 終れる owareru | 終れます owaremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 終られる owarareru | 終られます owararemasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 終らせる owaraseru | 終らせます owarasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 終らされる owarasareru | 終らされます owarasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 終れ oware | 終ってください owattekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 終るな owaruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 終れば owareba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 終ったら owattara | — | “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.