横切る (yokogiru) conjugation
to cross (e.g., arms), to traverse
横切る (よこぎる, yokogiru) 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 | 横切る yokogiru | 横切ります yokogirimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 横切らない yokogiranai | 横切りません yokogirimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 横切った yokogitta | 横切りました yokogirimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 横切らなかった yokogiranakatta | 横切りませんでした yokogirimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 横切って yokogitte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 横切っている yokogitteiru | 横切っています yokogitteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 横切りたい yokogiritai | 横切りたいです yokogiritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 横切ろう yokogirou | 横切りましょう yokogirimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 横切れる yokogireru | 横切れます yokogiremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 横切られる yokogirareru | 横切られます yokogiraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 横切らせる yokogiraseru | 横切らせます yokogirasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 横切らされる yokogirasareru | 横切らされます yokogirasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 横切れ yokogire | 横切ってください yokogittekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 横切るな yokogiruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 横切れば yokogireba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 横切ったら yokogittara | — | “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.