映える (haeru) conjugation
to shine, to look attractive, to look pretty
映える (はえる, haeru) 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 | 映える haeru | 映えます haemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 映えない haenai | 映えません haemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 映えた haeta | 映えました haemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 映えなかった haenakatta | 映えませんでした haemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 映えて haete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 映えている haeteiru | 映えています haeteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 映えたい haetai | 映えたいです haetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 映えよう haeyou | 映えましょう haemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 映えられる haerareru | 映えられます haeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 映えられる haerareru | 映えられます haeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 映えさせる haesaseru | 映えさせます haesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 映えさせられる haesaserareru | 映えさせられます haesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 映えろ haero | 映えてください haetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 映えるな haeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 映えれば haereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 映えたら haetara | — | “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.