売る (uru) conjugation
to sell (v.t.)
売る (うる, uru) 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 | 売る uru | 売ります urimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 売らない uranai | 売りません urimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 売った utta | 売りました urimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 売らなかった uranakatta | 売りませんでした urimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 売って utte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 売っている utteiru | 売っています utteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 売りたい uritai | 売りたいです uritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 売ろう urou | 売りましょう urimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 売れる ureru | 売れます uremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 売られる urareru | 売られます uraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 売らせる uraseru | 売らせます urasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 売らされる urasareru | 売らされます urasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 売れ ure | 売ってください uttekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 売るな uruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 売れば ureba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 売ったら uttara | — | “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.