通り掛かる (toorikakaru) conjugation
to happen to pass by
通り掛かる (とおりかかる, toorikakaru) 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 | 通り掛かる toorikakaru | 通り掛かります toorikakarimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 通り掛からない toorikakaranai | 通り掛かりません toorikakarimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 通り掛かった toorikakatta | 通り掛かりました toorikakarimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 通り掛からなかった toorikakaranakatta | 通り掛かりませんでした toorikakarimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 通り掛かって toorikakatte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 通り掛かっている toorikakatteiru | 通り掛かっています toorikakatteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 通り掛かりたい toorikakaritai | 通り掛かりたいです toorikakaritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 通り掛かろう toorikakarou | 通り掛かりましょう toorikakarimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 通り掛かれる toorikakareru | 通り掛かれます toorikakaremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 通り掛かられる toorikakarareru | 通り掛かられます toorikakararemasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 通り掛からせる toorikakaraseru | 通り掛からせます toorikakarasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 通り掛からされる toorikakarasareru | 通り掛からされます toorikakarasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 通り掛かれ toorikakare | 通り掛かってください toorikakattekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 通り掛かるな toorikakaruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 通り掛かれば toorikakareba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 通り掛かったら toorikakattara | — | “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.