膨れる (fukureru) conjugation
to swell (out), to be inflated, to bulge
膨れる (ふくれる, fukureru) 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 | 膨れる fukureru | 膨れます fukuremasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 膨れない fukurenai | 膨れません fukuremasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 膨れた fukureta | 膨れました fukuremashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 膨れなかった fukurenakatta | 膨れませんでした fukuremasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 膨れて fukurete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 膨れている fukureteiru | 膨れています fukureteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 膨れたい fukuretai | 膨れたいです fukuretaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 膨れよう fukureyou | 膨れましょう fukuremashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 膨れられる fukurerareru | 膨れられます fukureraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 膨れられる fukurerareru | 膨れられます fukureraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 膨れさせる fukuresaseru | 膨れさせます fukuresasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 膨れさせられる fukuresaserareru | 膨れさせられます fukuresaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 膨れろ fukurero | 膨れてください fukuretekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 膨れるな fukureruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 膨れれば fukurereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 膨れたら fukuretara | — | “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.