吠える (hoeru) conjugation
to bark, to howl
吠える (ほえる, hoeru) 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 | 吠える hoeru | 吠えます hoemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 吠えない hoenai | 吠えません hoemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 吠えた hoeta | 吠えました hoemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 吠えなかった hoenakatta | 吠えませんでした hoemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 吠えて hoete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 吠えている hoeteiru | 吠えています hoeteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 吠えたい hoetai | 吠えたいです hoetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 吠えよう hoeyou | 吠えましょう hoemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 吠えられる hoerareru | 吠えられます hoeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 吠えられる hoerareru | 吠えられます hoeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 吠えさせる hoesaseru | 吠えさせます hoesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 吠えさせられる hoesaserareru | 吠えさせられます hoesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 吠えろ hoero | 吠えてください hoetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 吠えるな hoeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 吠えれば hoereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 吠えたら hoetara | — | “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.