寄る (yoru) conjugation
to stop by
寄る (よる, yoru) 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 | 寄る yoru | 寄ります yorimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 寄らない yoranai | 寄りません yorimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 寄った yotta | 寄りました yorimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 寄らなかった yoranakatta | 寄りませんでした yorimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 寄って yotte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 寄っている yotteiru | 寄っています yotteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 寄りたい yoritai | 寄りたいです yoritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 寄ろう yorou | 寄りましょう yorimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 寄れる yoreru | 寄れます yoremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 寄られる yorareru | 寄られます yoraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 寄らせる yoraseru | 寄らせます yorasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 寄らされる yorasareru | 寄らされます yorasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 寄れ yore | 寄ってください yottekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 寄るな yoruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 寄れば yoreba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 寄ったら yottara | — | “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.