焦る (aseru) conjugation
to be in a hurry, to be impatient
焦る (あせる, aseru) is a godan verb. Godan verbs change their final kana up and down its column of the kana chart — the a-row for negatives, the i-row before ます, the e-row for potential and ば. 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 | 焦る aseru | 焦ります aserimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 焦らない aseranai | 焦りません aserimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 焦った asetta | 焦りました aserimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 焦らなかった aseranakatta | 焦りませんでした aserimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 焦って asette | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 焦っている asetteiru | 焦っています asetteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 焦りたい aseritai | 焦りたいです aseritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 焦ろう aserou | 焦りましょう aserimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 焦れる asereru | 焦れます aseremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 焦られる aserareru | 焦られます aseraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 焦らせる aseraseru | 焦らせます aserasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 焦らされる aserasareru | 焦らされます aserasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 焦れ asere | 焦ってください asettekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 焦るな aseruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 焦れば asereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 焦ったら asettara | — | “if / when ~”. The everyday conditional. |
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Why it conjugates this way
Godan verbs change their final kana up and down its column of the kana chart — the a-row for negatives, the i-row before ます, the e-row for potential and ば.
See the full rules on the verb conjugation guide.