枯れる (kareru) conjugation
to wither, to die (plant), to be blasted (plant)
枯れる (かれる, kareru) 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 | 枯れる kareru | 枯れます karemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 枯れない karenai | 枯れません karemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 枯れた kareta | 枯れました karemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 枯れなかった karenakatta | 枯れませんでした karemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 枯れて karete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 枯れている kareteiru | 枯れています kareteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 枯れたい karetai | 枯れたいです karetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 枯れよう kareyou | 枯れましょう karemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 枯れられる karerareru | 枯れられます kareraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 枯れられる karerareru | 枯れられます kareraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 枯れさせる karesaseru | 枯れさせます karesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 枯れさせられる karesaserareru | 枯れさせられます karesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 枯れろ karero | 枯れてください karetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 枯れるな kareruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 枯れれば karereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 枯れたら karetara | — | “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.
