通じる (tsuujiru) conjugation
to run to, to lead to, to communicate
通じる (つうじる, tsuujiru) is an ichidan verb. Ichidan verbs are the tidy ones: drop the final る and add the ending. Nothing inside the word ever changes. 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 | 通じる tsuujiru | 通じます tsuujimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 通じない tsuujinai | 通じません tsuujimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 通じた tsuujita | 通じました tsuujimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 通じなかった tsuujinakatta | 通じませんでした tsuujimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 通じて tsuujite | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 通じている tsuujiteiru | 通じています tsuujiteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 通じたい tsuujitai | 通じたいです tsuujitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 通じよう tsuujiyou | 通じましょう tsuujimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 通じられる tsuujirareru | 通じられます tsuujiraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 通じられる tsuujirareru | 通じられます tsuujiraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 通じさせる tsuujisaseru | 通じさせます tsuujisasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 通じさせられる tsuujisaserareru | 通じさせられます tsuujisaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 通じろ tsuujiro | 通じてください tsuujitekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 通じるな tsuujiruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 通じれば tsuujireba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 通じたら tsuujitara | — | “if / when ~”. The everyday conditional. |
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Why it conjugates this way
Ichidan verbs are the tidy ones: drop the final る and add the ending. Nothing inside the word ever changes.
See the full rules on the verb conjugation guide.
