比べる (kuraberu) conjugation
to compare
比べる (くらべる, kuraberu) 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 | 比べる kuraberu | 比べます kurabemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 比べない kurabenai | 比べません kurabemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 比べた kurabeta | 比べました kurabemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 比べなかった kurabenakatta | 比べませんでした kurabemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 比べて kurabete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 比べている kurabeteiru | 比べています kurabeteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 比べたい kurabetai | 比べたいです kurabetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 比べよう kurabeyou | 比べましょう kurabemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 比べられる kuraberareru | 比べられます kuraberaremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 比べられる kuraberareru | 比べられます kuraberaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 比べさせる kurabesaseru | 比べさせます kurabesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 比べさせられる kurabesaserareru | 比べさせられます kurabesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 比べろ kurabero | 比べてください kurabetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 比べるな kuraberuna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 比べれば kurabereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 比べたら kurabetara | — | “if / when ~”. The everyday conditional. |
🔊 Tap any Japanese word to hear it spoken.
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.