転じる (tenjiru) conjugation
to turn, to shift
転じる (てんじる, tenjiru) 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 | 転じる tenjiru | 転じます tenjimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 転じない tenjinai | 転じません tenjimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 転じた tenjita | 転じました tenjimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 転じなかった tenjinakatta | 転じませんでした tenjimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 転じて tenjite | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 転じている tenjiteiru | 転じています tenjiteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 転じたい tenjitai | 転じたいです tenjitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 転じよう tenjiyou | 転じましょう tenjimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 転じられる tenjirareru | 転じられます tenjiraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 転じられる tenjirareru | 転じられます tenjiraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 転じさせる tenjisaseru | 転じさせます tenjisasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 転じさせられる tenjisaserareru | 転じさせられます tenjisaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 転じろ tenjiro | 転じてください tenjitekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 転じるな tenjiruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 転じれば tenjireba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 転じたら tenjitara | — | “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.
