備わる (sonawaru) conjugation
to be furnished with
備わる (そなわる, sonawaru) 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 | 備わる sonawaru | 備わります sonawarimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 備わらない sonawaranai | 備わりません sonawarimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 備わった sonawatta | 備わりました sonawarimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 備わらなかった sonawaranakatta | 備わりませんでした sonawarimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 備わって sonawatte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 備わっている sonawatteiru | 備わっています sonawatteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 備わりたい sonawaritai | 備わりたいです sonawaritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 備わろう sonawarou | 備わりましょう sonawarimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 備われる sonawareru | 備われます sonawaremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 備わられる sonawarareru | 備わられます sonawararemasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 備わらせる sonawaraseru | 備わらせます sonawarasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 備わらされる sonawarasareru | 備わらされます sonawarasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 備われ sonaware | 備わってください sonawattekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 備わるな sonawaruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 備われば sonawareba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 備わったら sonawattara | — | “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.