つながる (tsunagaru) conjugation
to be connected to, to be related to
つながる (つながる, tsunagaru) 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.
Written 繋がる in kanji, but usually written in kana alone.
Conjugation table
| Form | Plain (casual) | Polite (~ます) | When you use it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dictionary / plain | つながる tsunagaru | つながります tsunagarimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | つながらない tsunagaranai | つながりません tsunagarimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | つながった tsunagatta | つながりました tsunagarimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | つながらなかった tsunagaranakatta | つながりませんでした tsunagarimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | つながって tsunagatte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | つながっている tsunagatteiru | つながっています tsunagatteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | つながりたい tsunagaritai | つながりたいです tsunagaritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | つながろう tsunagarou | つながりましょう tsunagarimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | つながれる tsunagareru | つながれます tsunagaremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | つながられる tsunagarareru | つながられます tsunagararemasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | つながらせる tsunagaraseru | つながらせます tsunagarasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | つながらされる tsunagarasareru | つながらされます tsunagarasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | つながれ tsunagare | つながってください tsunagattekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | つながるな tsunagaruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | つながれば tsunagareba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | つながったら tsunagattara | — | “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.