貫く (tsuranuku) conjugation
to go through
貫く (つらぬく, tsuranuku) 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 | 貫く tsuranuku | 貫きます tsuranukimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 貫かない tsuranukanai | 貫きません tsuranukimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 貫いた tsuranuita | 貫きました tsuranukimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 貫かなかった tsuranukanakatta | 貫きませんでした tsuranukimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 貫いて tsuranuite | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 貫いている tsuranuiteiru | 貫いています tsuranuiteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 貫きたい tsuranukitai | 貫きたいです tsuranukitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 貫こう tsuranukou | 貫きましょう tsuranukimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 貫ける tsuranukeru | 貫けます tsuranukemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 貫かれる tsuranukareru | 貫かれます tsuranukaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 貫かせる tsuranukaseru | 貫かせます tsuranukasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 貫かされる tsuranukasareru | 貫かされます tsuranukasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 貫け tsuranuke | 貫いてください tsuranuitekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 貫くな tsuranukuna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 貫けば tsuranukeba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 貫いたら tsuranuitara | — | “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.