突っ張る (tsupparu) conjugation
to support, to become stiff; to thrust (ones opponent), to stick to (ones opinion), to insist on
突っ張る (つっぱる, tsupparu) 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 | 突っ張る tsupparu | 突っ張ります tsupparimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 突っ張らない tsupparanai | 突っ張りません tsupparimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 突っ張った tsuppatta | 突っ張りました tsupparimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 突っ張らなかった tsupparanakatta | 突っ張りませんでした tsupparimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 突っ張って tsuppatte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 突っ張っている tsuppatteiru | 突っ張っています tsuppatteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 突っ張りたい tsupparitai | 突っ張りたいです tsupparitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 突っ張ろう tsupparou | 突っ張りましょう tsupparimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 突っ張れる tsuppareru | 突っ張れます tsupparemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 突っ張られる tsupparareru | 突っ張られます tsuppararemasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 突っ張らせる tsupparaseru | 突っ張らせます tsupparasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 突っ張らされる tsupparasareru | 突っ張らされます tsupparasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 突っ張れ tsuppare | 突っ張ってください tsuppattekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 突っ張るな tsupparuna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 突っ張れば tsuppareba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 突っ張ったら tsuppattara | — | “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.