閉まる (shimaru) conjugation
to close, to be closed
閉まる (しまる, shimaru) 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 | 閉まる shimaru | 閉まります shimarimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 閉まらない shimaranai | 閉まりません shimarimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 閉まった shimatta | 閉まりました shimarimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 閉まらなかった shimaranakatta | 閉まりませんでした shimarimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 閉まって shimatte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 閉まっている shimatteiru | 閉まっています shimatteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 閉まりたい shimaritai | 閉まりたいです shimaritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 閉まろう shimarou | 閉まりましょう shimarimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 閉まれる shimareru | 閉まれます shimaremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 閉まられる shimarareru | 閉まられます shimararemasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 閉まらせる shimaraseru | 閉まらせます shimarasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 閉まらされる shimarasareru | 閉まらされます shimarasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 閉まれ shimare | 閉まってください shimattekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 閉まるな shimaruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 閉まれば shimareba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 閉まったら shimattara | — | “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.