絞る (shiboru) conjugation
to press, to wring, to squeeze
絞る (しぼる, shiboru) 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 | 絞る shiboru | 絞ります shiborimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 絞らない shiboranai | 絞りません shiborimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 絞った shibotta | 絞りました shiborimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 絞らなかった shiboranakatta | 絞りませんでした shiborimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 絞って shibotte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 絞っている shibotteiru | 絞っています shibotteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 絞りたい shiboritai | 絞りたいです shiboritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 絞ろう shiborou | 絞りましょう shiborimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 絞れる shiboreru | 絞れます shiboremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 絞られる shiborareru | 絞られます shiboraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 絞らせる shiboraseru | 絞らせます shiborasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 絞らされる shiborasareru | 絞らされます shiborasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 絞れ shibore | 絞ってください shibottekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 絞るな shiboruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 絞れば shiboreba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 絞ったら shibottara | — | “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.