裏切る (uragiru) conjugation
to betray, to turn traitor
裏切る (うらぎる, uragiru) 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 | 裏切る uragiru | 裏切ります uragirimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 裏切らない uragiranai | 裏切りません uragirimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 裏切った uragitta | 裏切りました uragirimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 裏切らなかった uragiranakatta | 裏切りませんでした uragirimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 裏切って uragitte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 裏切っている uragitteiru | 裏切っています uragitteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 裏切りたい uragiritai | 裏切りたいです uragiritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 裏切ろう uragirou | 裏切りましょう uragirimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 裏切れる uragireru | 裏切れます uragiremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 裏切られる uragirareru | 裏切られます uragiraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 裏切らせる uragiraseru | 裏切らせます uragirasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 裏切らされる uragirasareru | 裏切らされます uragirasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 裏切れ uragire | 裏切ってください uragittekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 裏切るな uragiruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 裏切れば uragireba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 裏切ったら uragittara | — | “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.