刺さる (sasaru) conjugation
to stick, to be stuck
刺さる (ささる, sasaru) 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 | 刺さる sasaru | 刺さります sasarimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 刺さらない sasaranai | 刺さりません sasarimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 刺さった sasatta | 刺さりました sasarimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 刺さらなかった sasaranakatta | 刺さりませんでした sasarimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 刺さって sasatte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 刺さっている sasatteiru | 刺さっています sasatteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 刺さりたい sasaritai | 刺さりたいです sasaritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 刺さろう sasarou | 刺さりましょう sasarimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 刺される sasareru | 刺されます sasaremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 刺さられる sasarareru | 刺さられます sasararemasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 刺さらせる sasaraseru | 刺さらせます sasarasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 刺さらされる sasarasareru | 刺さらされます sasarasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 刺され sasare | 刺さってください sasattekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 刺さるな sasaruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 刺されば sasareba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 刺さったら sasattara | — | “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.