暮れる (kureru) conjugation
to get dark, to come to an end
暮れる (くれる, kureru) 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 | 暮れる kureru | 暮れます kuremasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 暮れない kurenai | 暮れません kuremasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 暮れた kureta | 暮れました kuremashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 暮れなかった kurenakatta | 暮れませんでした kuremasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 暮れて kurete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 暮れている kureteiru | 暮れています kureteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 暮れたい kuretai | 暮れたいです kuretaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 暮れよう kureyou | 暮れましょう kuremashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 暮れられる kurerareru | 暮れられます kureraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 暮れられる kurerareru | 暮れられます kureraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 暮れさせる kuresaseru | 暮れさせます kuresasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 暮れさせられる kuresaserareru | 暮れさせられます kuresaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 暮れろ kurero | 暮れてください kuretekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 暮れるな kureruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 暮れれば kurereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 暮れたら kuretara | — | “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.