離れる (hanareru) conjugation
(something, someone) separates; parts from; to be apart
離れる (はなれる, hanareru) 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 | 離れる hanareru | 離れます hanaremasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 離れない hanarenai | 離れません hanaremasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 離れた hanareta | 離れました hanaremashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 離れなかった hanarenakatta | 離れませんでした hanaremasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 離れて hanarete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 離れている hanareteiru | 離れています hanareteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 離れたい hanaretai | 離れたいです hanaretaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 離れよう hanareyou | 離れましょう hanaremashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 離れられる hanarerareru | 離れられます hanareraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 離れられる hanarerareru | 離れられます hanareraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 離れさせる hanaresaseru | 離れさせます hanaresasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 離れさせられる hanaresaserareru | 離れさせられます hanaresaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 離れろ hanarero | 離れてください hanaretekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 離れるな hanareruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 離れれば hanarereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 離れたら hanaretara | — | “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.
