占う (uranau) conjugation
to predict, to divine
占う (うらなう, uranau) 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 | 占う uranau | 占います uranaimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 占わない uranawanai | 占いません uranaimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 占った uranatta | 占いました uranaimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 占わなかった uranawanakatta | 占いませんでした uranaimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 占って uranatte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 占っている uranatteiru | 占っています uranatteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 占いたい uranaitai | 占いたいです uranaitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 占おう uranaou | 占いましょう uranaimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 占える uranaeru | 占えます uranaemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 占われる uranawareru | 占われます uranawaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 占わせる uranawaseru | 占わせます uranawasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 占わされる uranawasareru | 占わされます uranawasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 占え uranae | 占ってください uranattekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 占うな uranauna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 占えば uranaeba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 占ったら uranattara | — | “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.