破る (yaburu) conjugation
to tear; to violate; to defeat
破る (やぶる, yaburu) 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 | 破る yaburu | 破ります yaburimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 破らない yaburanai | 破りません yaburimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 破った yabutta | 破りました yaburimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 破らなかった yaburanakatta | 破りませんでした yaburimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 破って yabutte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 破っている yabutteiru | 破っています yabutteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 破りたい yaburitai | 破りたいです yaburitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 破ろう yaburou | 破りましょう yaburimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 破れる yabureru | 破れます yaburemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 破られる yaburareru | 破られます yaburaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 破らせる yaburaseru | 破らせます yaburasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 破らされる yaburasareru | 破らされます yaburasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 破れ yabure | 破ってください yabuttekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 破るな yaburuna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 破れば yabureba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 破ったら yabuttara | — | “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.