憧れる (akogareru) conjugation
to long for, to yearn after
憧れる (あこがれる, akogareru) 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 | 憧れる akogareru | 憧れます akogaremasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 憧れない akogarenai | 憧れません akogaremasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 憧れた akogareta | 憧れました akogaremashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 憧れなかった akogarenakatta | 憧れませんでした akogaremasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 憧れて akogarete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 憧れている akogareteiru | 憧れています akogareteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 憧れたい akogaretai | 憧れたいです akogaretaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 憧れよう akogareyou | 憧れましょう akogaremashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 憧れられる akogarerareru | 憧れられます akogareraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 憧れられる akogarerareru | 憧れられます akogareraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 憧れさせる akogaresaseru | 憧れさせます akogaresasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 憧れさせられる akogaresaserareru | 憧れさせられます akogaresaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 憧れろ akogarero | 憧れてください akogaretekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 憧れるな akogareruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 憧れれば akogarereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 憧れたら akogaretara | — | “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.
