消える (kieru) conjugation
to vanish, to disappear
消える (きえる, kieru) 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 | 消える kieru | 消えます kiemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 消えない kienai | 消えません kiemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 消えた kieta | 消えました kiemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 消えなかった kienakatta | 消えませんでした kiemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 消えて kiete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 消えている kieteiru | 消えています kieteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 消えたい kietai | 消えたいです kietaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 消えよう kieyou | 消えましょう kiemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 消えられる kierareru | 消えられます kieraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 消えられる kierareru | 消えられます kieraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 消えさせる kiesaseru | 消えさせます kiesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 消えさせられる kiesaserareru | 消えさせられます kiesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 消えろ kiero | 消えてください kietekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 消えるな kieruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 消えれば kiereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 消えたら kietara | — | “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.