隠れる (kakureru) conjugation
to hide, to be hidden
隠れる (かくれる, kakureru) 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 | 隠れる kakureru | 隠れます kakuremasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 隠れない kakurenai | 隠れません kakuremasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 隠れた kakureta | 隠れました kakuremashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 隠れなかった kakurenakatta | 隠れませんでした kakuremasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 隠れて kakurete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 隠れている kakureteiru | 隠れています kakureteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 隠れたい kakuretai | 隠れたいです kakuretaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 隠れよう kakureyou | 隠れましょう kakuremashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 隠れられる kakurerareru | 隠れられます kakureraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 隠れられる kakurerareru | 隠れられます kakureraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 隠れさせる kakuresaseru | 隠れさせます kakuresasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 隠れさせられる kakuresaserareru | 隠れさせられます kakuresaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 隠れろ kakurero | 隠れてください kakuretekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 隠れるな kakureruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 隠れれば kakurereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 隠れたら kakuretara | — | “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.