現れる (arawareru) conjugation
to appear (v.i.), to become visible; to express
現れる (あらわれる, arawareru) 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 | 現れる arawareru | 現れます arawaremasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 現れない arawarenai | 現れません arawaremasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 現れた arawareta | 現れました arawaremashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 現れなかった arawarenakatta | 現れませんでした arawaremasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 現れて arawarete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 現れている arawareteiru | 現れています arawareteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 現れたい arawaretai | 現れたいです arawaretaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 現れよう arawareyou | 現れましょう arawaremashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 現れられる arawarerareru | 現れられます arawareraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 現れられる arawarerareru | 現れられます arawareraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 現れさせる arawaresaseru | 現れさせます arawaresasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 現れさせられる arawaresaserareru | 現れさせられます arawaresaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 現れろ arawarero | 現れてください arawaretekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 現れるな arawareruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 現れれば arawarereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 現れたら arawaretara | — | “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.
