慌てる (awateru) conjugation
to become confused、to panic
慌てる (あわてる, awateru) 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 | 慌てる awateru | 慌てます awatemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 慌てない awatenai | 慌てません awatemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 慌てた awateta | 慌てました awatemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 慌てなかった awatenakatta | 慌てませんでした awatemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 慌てて awatete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 慌てている awateteiru | 慌てています awateteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 慌てたい awatetai | 慌てたいです awatetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 慌てよう awateyou | 慌てましょう awatemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 慌てられる awaterareru | 慌てられます awateraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 慌てられる awaterareru | 慌てられます awateraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 慌てさせる awatesaseru | 慌てさせます awatesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 慌てさせられる awatesaserareru | 慌てさせられます awatesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 慌てろ awatero | 慌ててください awatetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 慌てるな awateruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 慌てれば awatereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 慌てたら awatetara | — | “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.