反る (soru) conjugation
to warp, to be warped, to curve
反る (そる, soru) 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 | 反る soru | 反ります sorimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 反らない soranai | 反りません sorimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 反った sotta | 反りました sorimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 反らなかった soranakatta | 反りませんでした sorimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 反って sotte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 反っている sotteiru | 反っています sotteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 反りたい soritai | 反りたいです soritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 反ろう sorou | 反りましょう sorimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 反れる soreru | 反れます soremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 反られる sorareru | 反られます soraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 反らせる soraseru | 反らせます sorasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 反らされる sorasareru | 反らされます sorasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 反れ sore | 反ってください sottekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 反るな soruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 反れば soreba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 反ったら sottara | — | “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.