詰まる (tsumaru) conjugation
to be blocked, to be packed
詰まる (つまる, tsumaru) 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 | 詰まる tsumaru | 詰まります tsumarimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 詰まらない tsumaranai | 詰まりません tsumarimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 詰まった tsumatta | 詰まりました tsumarimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 詰まらなかった tsumaranakatta | 詰まりませんでした tsumarimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 詰まって tsumatte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 詰まっている tsumatteiru | 詰まっています tsumatteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 詰まりたい tsumaritai | 詰まりたいです tsumaritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 詰まろう tsumarou | 詰まりましょう tsumarimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 詰まれる tsumareru | 詰まれます tsumaremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 詰まられる tsumarareru | 詰まられます tsumararemasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 詰まらせる tsumaraseru | 詰まらせます tsumarasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 詰まらされる tsumarasareru | 詰まらされます tsumarasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 詰まれ tsumare | 詰まってください tsumattekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 詰まるな tsumaruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 詰まれば tsumareba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 詰まったら tsumattara | — | “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.