腫れる (hareru) conjugation
to swell (from inflammation, to become swollen)
腫れる (はれる, hareru) 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 | 腫れる hareru | 腫れます haremasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 腫れない harenai | 腫れません haremasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 腫れた hareta | 腫れました haremashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 腫れなかった harenakatta | 腫れませんでした haremasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 腫れて harete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 腫れている hareteiru | 腫れています hareteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 腫れたい haretai | 腫れたいです haretaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 腫れよう hareyou | 腫れましょう haremashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 腫れられる harerareru | 腫れられます hareraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 腫れられる harerareru | 腫れられます hareraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 腫れさせる haresaseru | 腫れさせます haresasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 腫れさせられる haresaserareru | 腫れさせられます haresaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 腫れろ harero | 腫れてください haretekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 腫れるな hareruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 腫れれば harereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 腫れたら haretara | — | “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.