留まる (tomaru) conjugation
to be fixed; to abide, to stay (in the one place)
留まる (とまる, tomaru) 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 | 留まる tomaru | 留まります tomarimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 留まらない tomaranai | 留まりません tomarimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 留まった tomatta | 留まりました tomarimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 留まらなかった tomaranakatta | 留まりませんでした tomarimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 留まって tomatte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 留まっている tomatteiru | 留まっています tomatteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 留まりたい tomaritai | 留まりたいです tomaritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 留まろう tomarou | 留まりましょう tomarimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 留まれる tomareru | 留まれます tomaremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 留まられる tomarareru | 留まられます tomararemasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 留まらせる tomaraseru | 留まらせます tomarasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 留まらされる tomarasareru | 留まらされます tomarasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 留まれ tomare | 留まってください tomattekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 留まるな tomaruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 留まれば tomareba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 留まったら tomattara | — | “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.