仕切る (shikiru) conjugation
to partition, to divide, to mark off
仕切る (しきる, shikiru) 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 | 仕切る shikiru | 仕切ります shikirimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 仕切らない shikiranai | 仕切りません shikirimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 仕切った shikitta | 仕切りました shikirimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 仕切らなかった shikiranakatta | 仕切りませんでした shikirimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 仕切って shikitte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 仕切っている shikitteiru | 仕切っています shikitteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 仕切りたい shikiritai | 仕切りたいです shikiritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 仕切ろう shikirou | 仕切りましょう shikirimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 仕切れる shikireru | 仕切れます shikiremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 仕切られる shikirareru | 仕切られます shikiraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 仕切らせる shikiraseru | 仕切らせます shikirasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 仕切らされる shikirasareru | 仕切らされます shikirasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 仕切れ shikire | 仕切ってください shikittekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 仕切るな shikiruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 仕切れば shikireba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 仕切ったら shikittara | — | “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.