写る (utsuru) conjugation
to be photographed, to be projected
写る (うつる, utsuru) 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 | 写る utsuru | 写ります utsurimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 写らない utsuranai | 写りません utsurimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 写った utsutta | 写りました utsurimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 写らなかった utsuranakatta | 写りませんでした utsurimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 写って utsutte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 写っている utsutteiru | 写っています utsutteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 写りたい utsuritai | 写りたいです utsuritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 写ろう utsurou | 写りましょう utsurimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 写れる utsureru | 写れます utsuremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 写られる utsurareru | 写られます utsuraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 写らせる utsuraseru | 写らせます utsurasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 写らされる utsurasareru | 写らされます utsurasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 写れ utsure | 写ってください utsuttekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 写るな utsuruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 写れば utsureba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 写ったら utsuttara | — | “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.