割る (waru) conjugation
to divide, to break
割る (わる, waru) 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 | 割る waru | 割ります warimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 割らない waranai | 割りません warimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 割った watta | 割りました warimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 割らなかった waranakatta | 割りませんでした warimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 割って watte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 割っている watteiru | 割っています watteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 割りたい waritai | 割りたいです waritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 割ろう warou | 割りましょう warimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 割れる wareru | 割れます waremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 割られる warareru | 割られます wararemasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 割らせる waraseru | 割らせます warasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 割らされる warasareru | 割らされます warasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 割れ ware | 割ってください wattekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 割るな waruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 割れば wareba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 割ったら wattara | — | “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.