突き当たる (tsukiataru) conjugation
to run into, to collide with
突き当たる (つきあたる, tsukiataru) 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 | 突き当たる tsukiataru | 突き当たります tsukiatarimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 突き当たらない tsukiataranai | 突き当たりません tsukiatarimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 突き当たった tsukiatatta | 突き当たりました tsukiatarimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 突き当たらなかった tsukiataranakatta | 突き当たりませんでした tsukiatarimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 突き当たって tsukiatatte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 突き当たっている tsukiatatteiru | 突き当たっています tsukiatatteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 突き当たりたい tsukiataritai | 突き当たりたいです tsukiataritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 突き当たろう tsukiatarou | 突き当たりましょう tsukiatarimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 突き当たれる tsukiatareru | 突き当たれます tsukiataremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 突き当たられる tsukiatarareru | 突き当たられます tsukiatararemasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 突き当たらせる tsukiataraseru | 突き当たらせます tsukiatarasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 突き当たらされる tsukiatarasareru | 突き当たらされます tsukiatarasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 突き当たれ tsukiatare | 突き当たってください tsukiatattekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 突き当たるな tsukiataruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 突き当たれば tsukiatareba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 突き当たったら tsukiatattara | — | “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.