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