震える (furueru) conjugation
to shiver, to shake, to quake
震える (ふるえる, furueru) 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 | 震える furueru | 震えます furuemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 震えない furuenai | 震えません furuemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 震えた furueta | 震えました furuemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 震えなかった furuenakatta | 震えませんでした furuemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 震えて furuete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 震えている furueteiru | 震えています furueteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 震えたい furuetai | 震えたいです furuetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 震えよう furueyou | 震えましょう furuemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 震えられる furuerareru | 震えられます furueraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 震えられる furuerareru | 震えられます furueraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 震えさせる furuesaseru | 震えさせます furuesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 震えさせられる furuesaserareru | 震えさせられます furuesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 震えろ furuero | 震えてください furuetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 震えるな furueruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 震えれば furuereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 震えたら furuetara | — | “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.
