壊れる (kowareru) conjugation
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
| Form | Plain (casual) | Polite (~ます) | When you use it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dictionary / plain | 壊れる kowareru | 壊れます kowaremasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 壊れない kowarenai | 壊れません kowaremasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 壊れた kowareta | 壊れました kowaremashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 壊れなかった kowarenakatta | 壊れませんでした kowaremasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 壊れて kowarete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 壊れている kowareteiru | 壊れています kowareteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 壊れたい kowaretai | 壊れたいです kowaretaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 壊れよう kowareyou | 壊れましょう kowaremashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 壊れられる kowarerareru | 壊れられます kowareraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 壊れられる kowarerareru | 壊れられます kowareraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 壊れさせる kowaresaseru | 壊れさせます kowaresasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 壊れさせられる kowaresaserareru | 壊れさせられます kowaresaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 壊れろ kowarero | 壊れてください kowaretekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 壊れるな kowareruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 壊れれば kowarereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 壊れたら 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.
