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