寄り掛かる (yorikakaru) conjugation
to lean against, to recline on, to lean on, to rely on
寄り掛かる (よりかかる, yorikakaru) 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 | 寄り掛かる yorikakaru | 寄り掛かります yorikakarimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 寄り掛からない yorikakaranai | 寄り掛かりません yorikakarimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 寄り掛かった yorikakatta | 寄り掛かりました yorikakarimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 寄り掛からなかった yorikakaranakatta | 寄り掛かりませんでした yorikakarimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 寄り掛かって yorikakatte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 寄り掛かっている yorikakatteiru | 寄り掛かっています yorikakatteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 寄り掛かりたい yorikakaritai | 寄り掛かりたいです yorikakaritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 寄り掛かろう yorikakarou | 寄り掛かりましょう yorikakarimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 寄り掛かれる yorikakareru | 寄り掛かれます yorikakaremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 寄り掛かられる yorikakarareru | 寄り掛かられます yorikakararemasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 寄り掛からせる yorikakaraseru | 寄り掛からせます yorikakarasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 寄り掛からされる yorikakarasareru | 寄り掛からされます yorikakarasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 寄り掛かれ yorikakare | 寄り掛かってください yorikakattekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 寄り掛かるな yorikakaruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 寄り掛かれば yorikakareba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 寄り掛かったら yorikakattara | — | “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.