果てる (hateru) conjugation
to end, to be finished, to be exhausted
果てる (はてる, hateru) 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 | 果てる hateru | 果てます hatemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 果てない hatenai | 果てません hatemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 果てた hateta | 果てました hatemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 果てなかった hatenakatta | 果てませんでした hatemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 果てて hatete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 果てている hateteiru | 果てています hateteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 果てたい hatetai | 果てたいです hatetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 果てよう hateyou | 果てましょう hatemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 果てられる haterareru | 果てられます hateraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 果てられる haterareru | 果てられます hateraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 果てさせる hatesaseru | 果てさせます hatesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 果てさせられる hatesaserareru | 果てさせられます hatesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 果てろ hatero | 果ててください hatetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 果てるな hateruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 果てれば hatereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 果てたら hatetara | — | “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.