縮れる (chijireru) conjugation
to be wavy, to be curled
縮れる (ちぢれる, chijireru) 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 | 縮れる chijireru | 縮れます chijiremasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 縮れない chijirenai | 縮れません chijiremasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 縮れた chijireta | 縮れました chijiremashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 縮れなかった chijirenakatta | 縮れませんでした chijiremasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 縮れて chijirete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 縮れている chijireteiru | 縮れています chijireteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 縮れたい chijiretai | 縮れたいです chijiretaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 縮れよう chijireyou | 縮れましょう chijiremashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 縮れられる chijirerareru | 縮れられます chijireraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 縮れられる chijirerareru | 縮れられます chijireraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 縮れさせる chijiresaseru | 縮れさせます chijiresasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 縮れさせられる chijiresaserareru | 縮れさせられます chijiresaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 縮れろ chijirero | 縮れてください chijiretekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 縮れるな chijireruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 縮れれば chijirereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 縮れたら chijiretara | — | “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.
