燃える (moeru) conjugation
to burn
燃える (もえる, moeru) 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 | 燃える moeru | 燃えます moemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 燃えない moenai | 燃えません moemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 燃えた moeta | 燃えました moemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 燃えなかった moenakatta | 燃えませんでした moemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 燃えて moete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 燃えている moeteiru | 燃えています moeteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 燃えたい moetai | 燃えたいです moetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 燃えよう moeyou | 燃えましょう moemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 燃えられる moerareru | 燃えられます moeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 燃えられる moerareru | 燃えられます moeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 燃えさせる moesaseru | 燃えさせます moesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 燃えさせられる moesaserareru | 燃えさせられます moesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 燃えろ moero | 燃えてください moetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 燃えるな moeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 燃えれば moereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 燃えたら moetara | — | “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.