釣る (tsuru) conjugation
to fish
釣る (つる, tsuru) 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 | 釣る tsuru | 釣ります tsurimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 釣らない tsuranai | 釣りません tsurimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 釣った tsutta | 釣りました tsurimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 釣らなかった tsuranakatta | 釣りませんでした tsurimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 釣って tsutte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 釣っている tsutteiru | 釣っています tsutteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 釣りたい tsuritai | 釣りたいです tsuritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 釣ろう tsurou | 釣りましょう tsurimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 釣れる tsureru | 釣れます tsuremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 釣られる tsurareru | 釣られます tsuraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 釣らせる tsuraseru | 釣らせます tsurasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 釣らされる tsurasareru | 釣らされます tsurasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 釣れ tsure | 釣ってください tsuttekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 釣るな tsuruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 釣れば tsureba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 釣ったら tsuttara | — | “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.