焦げる (kogeru) conjugation
to burn, to be burned
焦げる (こげる, kogeru) 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 | 焦げる kogeru | 焦げます kogemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 焦げない kogenai | 焦げません kogemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 焦げた kogeta | 焦げました kogemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 焦げなかった kogenakatta | 焦げませんでした kogemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 焦げて kogete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 焦げている kogeteiru | 焦げています kogeteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 焦げたい kogetai | 焦げたいです kogetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 焦げよう kogeyou | 焦げましょう kogemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 焦げられる kogerareru | 焦げられます kogeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 焦げられる kogerareru | 焦げられます kogeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 焦げさせる kogesaseru | 焦げさせます kogesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 焦げさせられる kogesaserareru | 焦げさせられます kogesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 焦げろ kogero | 焦げてください kogetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 焦げるな kogeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 焦げれば kogereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 焦げたら kogetara | — | “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.