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