馴れる (nareru) conjugation
to become domesticated, to become tame
馴れる (なれる, nareru) 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 | 馴れる nareru | 馴れます naremasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 馴れない narenai | 馴れません naremasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 馴れた nareta | 馴れました naremashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 馴れなかった narenakatta | 馴れませんでした naremasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 馴れて narete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 馴れている nareteiru | 馴れています nareteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 馴れたい naretai | 馴れたいです naretaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 馴れよう nareyou | 馴れましょう naremashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 馴れられる narerareru | 馴れられます nareraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 馴れられる narerareru | 馴れられます nareraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 馴れさせる naresaseru | 馴れさせます naresasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 馴れさせられる naresaserareru | 馴れさせられます naresaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 馴れろ narero | 馴れてください naretekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 馴れるな nareruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 馴れれば narereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 馴れたら naretara | — | “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.