生じる (shoujiru) conjugation
to occur, to arise, to be generated
生じる (しょうじる, shoujiru) is an ichidan verb. Ichidan verbs are the tidy ones: drop the final る and add the ending. Nothing inside the word ever changes. 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 | 生じる shoujiru | 生じます shoujimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 生じない shoujinai | 生じません shoujimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 生じた shoujita | 生じました shoujimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 生じなかった shoujinakatta | 生じませんでした shoujimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 生じて shoujite | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 生じている shoujiteiru | 生じています shoujiteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 生じたい shoujitai | 生じたいです shoujitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 生じよう shoujiyou | 生じましょう shoujimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 生じられる shoujirareru | 生じられます shoujiraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 生じられる shoujirareru | 生じられます shoujiraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 生じさせる shoujisaseru | 生じさせます shoujisasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 生じさせられる shoujisaserareru | 生じさせられます shoujisaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 生じろ shoujiro | 生じてください shoujitekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 生じるな shoujiruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 生じれば shoujireba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 生じたら shoujitara | — | “if / when ~”. The everyday conditional. |
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Why it conjugates this way
Ichidan verbs are the tidy ones: drop the final る and add the ending. Nothing inside the word ever changes.
See the full rules on the verb conjugation guide.
