縛る (shibaru) conjugation
to tie, to bind
縛る (しばる, shibaru) 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 | 縛る shibaru | 縛ります shibarimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 縛らない shibaranai | 縛りません shibarimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 縛った shibatta | 縛りました shibarimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 縛らなかった shibaranakatta | 縛りませんでした shibarimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 縛って shibatte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 縛っている shibatteiru | 縛っています shibatteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 縛りたい shibaritai | 縛りたいです shibaritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 縛ろう shibarou | 縛りましょう shibarimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 縛れる shibareru | 縛れます shibaremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 縛られる shibarareru | 縛られます shibararemasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 縛らせる shibaraseru | 縛らせます shibarasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 縛らされる shibarasareru | 縛らされます shibarasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 縛れ shibare | 縛ってください shibattekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 縛るな shibaruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 縛れば shibareba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 縛ったら shibattara | — | “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.