採る (toru) conjugation
to adopt (measure, proposal); to pick (fruit)
採る (とる, toru) 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 | 採る toru | 採ります torimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 採らない toranai | 採りません torimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 採った totta | 採りました torimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 採らなかった toranakatta | 採りませんでした torimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 採って totte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 採っている totteiru | 採っています totteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 採りたい toritai | 採りたいです toritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 採ろう torou | 採りましょう torimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 採れる toreru | 採れます toremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 採られる torareru | 採られます toraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 採らせる toraseru | 採らせます torasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 採らされる torasareru | 採らされます torasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 採れ tore | 採ってください tottekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 採るな toruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 採れば toreba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 採ったら tottara | — | “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.