伝わる (tsutawaru) conjugation
to be handed down, to be transmitted
伝わる (つたわる, tsutawaru) 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 | 伝わる tsutawaru | 伝わります tsutawarimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 伝わらない tsutawaranai | 伝わりません tsutawarimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 伝わった tsutawatta | 伝わりました tsutawarimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 伝わらなかった tsutawaranakatta | 伝わりませんでした tsutawarimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 伝わって tsutawatte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 伝わっている tsutawatteiru | 伝わっています tsutawatteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 伝わりたい tsutawaritai | 伝わりたいです tsutawaritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 伝わろう tsutawarou | 伝わりましょう tsutawarimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 伝われる tsutawareru | 伝われます tsutawaremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 伝わられる tsutawarareru | 伝わられます tsutawararemasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 伝わらせる tsutawaraseru | 伝わらせます tsutawarasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 伝わらされる tsutawarasareru | 伝わらされます tsutawarasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 伝われ tsutaware | 伝わってください tsutawattekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 伝わるな tsutawaruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 伝われば tsutawareba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 伝わったら tsutawattara | — | “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.