甘える (amaeru) conjugation
to behave like a spoiled child, to fawn on
甘える (あまえる, amaeru) 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 | 甘える amaeru | 甘えます amaemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 甘えない amaenai | 甘えません amaemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 甘えた amaeta | 甘えました amaemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 甘えなかった amaenakatta | 甘えませんでした amaemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 甘えて amaete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 甘えている amaeteiru | 甘えています amaeteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 甘えたい amaetai | 甘えたいです amaetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 甘えよう amaeyou | 甘えましょう amaemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 甘えられる amaerareru | 甘えられます amaeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 甘えられる amaerareru | 甘えられます amaeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 甘えさせる amaesaseru | 甘えさせます amaesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 甘えさせられる amaesaserareru | 甘えさせられます amaesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 甘えろ amaero | 甘えてください amaetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 甘えるな amaeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 甘えれば amaereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 甘えたら amaetara | — | “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.
