流れる (nagareru) conjugation
to flow, to be washed away
流れる (ながれる, nagareru) 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 | 流れる nagareru | 流れます nagaremasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 流れない nagarenai | 流れません nagaremasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 流れた nagareta | 流れました nagaremashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 流れなかった nagarenakatta | 流れませんでした nagaremasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 流れて nagarete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 流れている nagareteiru | 流れています nagareteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 流れたい nagaretai | 流れたいです nagaretaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 流れよう nagareyou | 流れましょう nagaremashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 流れられる nagarerareru | 流れられます nagareraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 流れられる nagarerareru | 流れられます nagareraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 流れさせる nagaresaseru | 流れさせます nagaresasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 流れさせられる nagaresaserareru | 流れさせられます nagaresaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 流れろ nagarero | 流れてください nagaretekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 流れるな nagareruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 流れれば nagarereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 流れたら nagaretara | — | “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.
