呆れる (akireru) conjugation
to be shocked, to be appalled
呆れる (あきれる, akireru) 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 | 呆れる akireru | 呆れます akiremasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 呆れない akirenai | 呆れません akiremasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 呆れた akireta | 呆れました akiremashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 呆れなかった akirenakatta | 呆れませんでした akiremasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 呆れて akirete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 呆れている akireteiru | 呆れています akireteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 呆れたい akiretai | 呆れたいです akiretaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 呆れよう akireyou | 呆れましょう akiremashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 呆れられる akirerareru | 呆れられます akireraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 呆れられる akirerareru | 呆れられます akireraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 呆れさせる akiresaseru | 呆れさせます akiresasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 呆れさせられる akiresaserareru | 呆れさせられます akiresaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 呆れろ akirero | 呆れてください akiretekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 呆れるな akireruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 呆れれば akirereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 呆れたら akiretara | — | “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.