荒れる (areru) conjugation
to be stormy, to be rough, to be ruined
荒れる (あれる, areru) 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 | 荒れる areru | 荒れます aremasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 荒れない arenai | 荒れません aremasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 荒れた areta | 荒れました aremashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 荒れなかった arenakatta | 荒れませんでした aremasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 荒れて arete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 荒れている areteiru | 荒れています areteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 荒れたい aretai | 荒れたいです aretaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 荒れよう areyou | 荒れましょう aremashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 荒れられる arerareru | 荒れられます areraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 荒れられる arerareru | 荒れられます areraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 荒れさせる aresaseru | 荒れさせます aresasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 荒れさせられる aresaserareru | 荒れさせられます aresaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 荒れろ arero | 荒れてください aretekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 荒れるな areruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 荒れれば arereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 荒れたら aretara | — | “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.