濡れる (nureru) conjugation
to get wet
濡れる (ぬれる, nureru) 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 | 濡れる nureru | 濡れます nuremasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 濡れない nurenai | 濡れません nuremasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 濡れた nureta | 濡れました nuremashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 濡れなかった nurenakatta | 濡れませんでした nuremasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 濡れて nurete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 濡れている nureteiru | 濡れています nureteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 濡れたい nuretai | 濡れたいです nuretaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 濡れよう nureyou | 濡れましょう nuremashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 濡れられる nurerareru | 濡れられます nureraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 濡れられる nurerareru | 濡れられます nureraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 濡れさせる nuresaseru | 濡れさせます nuresasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 濡れさせられる nuresaserareru | 濡れさせられます nuresaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 濡れろ nurero | 濡れてください nuretekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 濡れるな nureruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 濡れれば nurereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 濡れたら nuretara | — | “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.