跳ねる (haneru) conjugation
to jump, to leap
跳ねる (はねる, haneru) 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 | 跳ねる haneru | 跳ねます hanemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 跳ねない hanenai | 跳ねません hanemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 跳ねた haneta | 跳ねました hanemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 跳ねなかった hanenakatta | 跳ねませんでした hanemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 跳ねて hanete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 跳ねている haneteiru | 跳ねています haneteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 跳ねたい hanetai | 跳ねたいです hanetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 跳ねよう haneyou | 跳ねましょう hanemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 跳ねられる hanerareru | 跳ねられます haneraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 跳ねられる hanerareru | 跳ねられます haneraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 跳ねさせる hanesaseru | 跳ねさせます hanesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 跳ねさせられる hanesaserareru | 跳ねさせられます hanesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 跳ねろ hanero | 跳ねてください hanetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 跳ねるな haneruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 跳ねれば hanereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 跳ねたら hanetara | — | “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.