逃げる (nigeru) conjugation
to escape, to run away
逃げる (にげる, nigeru) 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 | 逃げる nigeru | 逃げます nigemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 逃げない nigenai | 逃げません nigemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 逃げた nigeta | 逃げました nigemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 逃げなかった nigenakatta | 逃げませんでした nigemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 逃げて nigete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 逃げている nigeteiru | 逃げています nigeteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 逃げたい nigetai | 逃げたいです nigetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 逃げよう nigeyou | 逃げましょう nigemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 逃げられる nigerareru | 逃げられます nigeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 逃げられる nigerareru | 逃げられます nigeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 逃げさせる nigesaseru | 逃げさせます nigesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 逃げさせられる nigesaserareru | 逃げさせられます nigesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 逃げろ nigero | 逃げてください nigetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 逃げるな nigeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 逃げれば nigereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 逃げたら nigetara | — | “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.
