存じる (zonjiru) conjugation
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存じる (ぞんじる, zonjiru) is an ichidan verb. Ichidan verbs are the tidy ones: drop the final る and add the ending. Nothing inside the word ever changes. 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 | 存じる zonjiru | 存じます zonjimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 存じない zonjinai | 存じません zonjimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 存じた zonjita | 存じました zonjimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 存じなかった zonjinakatta | 存じませんでした zonjimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 存じて zonjite | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 存じている zonjiteiru | 存じています zonjiteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 存じたい zonjitai | 存じたいです zonjitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 存じよう zonjiyou | 存じましょう zonjimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 存じられる zonjirareru | 存じられます zonjiraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 存じられる zonjirareru | 存じられます zonjiraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 存じさせる zonjisaseru | 存じさせます zonjisasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 存じさせられる zonjisaserareru | 存じさせられます zonjisaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 存じろ zonjiro | 存じてください zonjitekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 存じるな zonjiruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 存じれば zonjireba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 存じたら zonjitara | — | “if / when ~”. The everyday conditional. |
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Why it conjugates this way
Ichidan verbs are the tidy ones: drop the final る and add the ending. Nothing inside the word ever changes.
See the full rules on the verb conjugation guide.
