乱れる (midareru) conjugation
to get confused, to be disordered, to be disturbed
乱れる (みだれる, midareru) 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 | 乱れる midareru | 乱れます midaremasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 乱れない midarenai | 乱れません midaremasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 乱れた midareta | 乱れました midaremashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 乱れなかった midarenakatta | 乱れませんでした midaremasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 乱れて midarete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 乱れている midareteiru | 乱れています midareteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 乱れたい midaretai | 乱れたいです midaretaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 乱れよう midareyou | 乱れましょう midaremashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 乱れられる midarerareru | 乱れられます midareraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 乱れられる midarerareru | 乱れられます midareraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 乱れさせる midaresaseru | 乱れさせます midaresasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 乱れさせられる midaresaserareru | 乱れさせられます midaresaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 乱れろ midarero | 乱れてください midaretekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 乱れるな midareruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 乱れれば midarereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 乱れたら midaretara | — | “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.