飽きる (akiru) conjugation
to get tired of, to lose interest in
飽きる (あきる, akiru) 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 | 飽きる akiru | 飽きます akimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 飽きない akinai | 飽きません akimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 飽きた akita | 飽きました akimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 飽きなかった akinakatta | 飽きませんでした akimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 飽きて akite | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 飽きている akiteiru | 飽きています akiteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 飽きたい akitai | 飽きたいです akitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 飽きよう akiyou | 飽きましょう akimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 飽きられる akirareru | 飽きられます akiraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 飽きられる akirareru | 飽きられます akiraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 飽きさせる akisaseru | 飽きさせます akisasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 飽きさせられる akisaserareru | 飽きさせられます akisaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 飽きろ akiro | 飽きてください akitekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 飽きるな akiruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 飽きれば akireba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 飽きたら akitara | — | “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.
