凍える (kogoeru) conjugation
to freeze, to be chilled, to be frozen
凍える (こごえる, kogoeru) 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 | 凍える kogoeru | 凍えます kogoemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 凍えない kogoenai | 凍えません kogoemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 凍えた kogoeta | 凍えました kogoemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 凍えなかった kogoenakatta | 凍えませんでした kogoemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 凍えて kogoete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 凍えている kogoeteiru | 凍えています kogoeteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 凍えたい kogoetai | 凍えたいです kogoetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 凍えよう kogoeyou | 凍えましょう kogoemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 凍えられる kogoerareru | 凍えられます kogoeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 凍えられる kogoerareru | 凍えられます kogoeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 凍えさせる kogoesaseru | 凍えさせます kogoesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 凍えさせられる kogoesaserareru | 凍えさせられます kogoesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 凍えろ kogoero | 凍えてください kogoetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 凍えるな kogoeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 凍えれば kogoereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 凍えたら kogoetara | — | “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.