称する (shousuru) conjugation
to take the name of, to call oneself
称する (しょうする, shousuru) is an irregular verb. Only する and 来る are truly irregular, and every learner meets them in week one. 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 | 称する shousuru | 称します shoushimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 称しない shoushinai | 称しません shoushimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 称した shoushita | 称しました shoushimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 称しなかった shoushinakatta | 称しませんでした shoushimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 称して shoushite | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 称している shoushiteiru | 称しています shoushiteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 称したい shoushitai | 称したいです shoushitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 称しよう shoushiyou | 称しましょう shoushimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 称できる shoudekiru | 称できます shoudekimasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 称される shousareru | 称されます shousaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 称させる shousaseru | 称させます shousasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 称させられる shousaserareru | 称させられます shousaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 称しろ shoushiro | 称してください shoushitekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 称するな shousuruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 称すれば shousureba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 称したら shoushitara | — | “if / when ~”. The everyday conditional. |
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Why it conjugates this way
Only する and 来る are truly irregular, and every learner meets them in week one.
See the full rules on the verb conjugation guide.