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壊れる (kowareru) conjugation

JLPT N4 Ichidan verb (Group 2 / ru-verb)intransitive

to be broken, to break

壊れる (こわれる, kowareru) 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

FormPlain (casual)Polite (~ます)When you use it
Dictionary / plain
kowareru

kowaremasu
The form you look up. Also the casual present and future.
Plain negative
kowarenai

kowaremasen
“doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective.
Plain past
kowareta

kowaremashita
The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ.
Plain past negative
kowarenakatta

kowaremasendeshita
“didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped.
Te-form
kowarete
The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている.
Progressive (~ている)
kowareteiru

kowareteimasu
“is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state.
Desire (~たい)
kowaretai

kowaretaidesu
“want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective.
Volitional
kowareyou

kowaremashou
“let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”.
Potential
kowarerareru

kowareraremasu
“can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が.
Passive
kowarerareru

kowareraremasu
“is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive.
Causative
kowaresaseru

kowaresasemasu
Make or let someone do it.
Causative-passive
kowaresaserareru

kowaresaseraremasu
Be made to do it — the long one.
Imperative
kowarero

kowaretekudasai
Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life.
Prohibitive
kowareruna
“don’t!” — dictionary form + な.
Conditional (~ば)
kowarereba
“if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals.
Conditional (~たら)
kowaretara
“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.

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