触れる (fureru) conjugation
to touch, to feel, to violate
触れる (ふれる, fureru) 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 | 触れる fureru | 触れます furemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 触れない furenai | 触れません furemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 触れた fureta | 触れました furemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 触れなかった furenakatta | 触れませんでした furemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 触れて furete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 触れている fureteiru | 触れています fureteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 触れたい furetai | 触れたいです furetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 触れよう fureyou | 触れましょう furemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 触れられる furerareru | 触れられます fureraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 触れられる furerareru | 触れられます fureraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 触れさせる furesaseru | 触れさせます furesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 触れさせられる furesaserareru | 触れさせられます furesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 触れろ furero | 触れてください furetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 触れるな fureruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 触れれば furereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 触れたら furetara | — | “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.