落る (ochiru) conjugation
to fall, to drop
落る (おちる, ochiru) 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 | 落る ochiru | 落ます ochimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 落ない ochinai | 落ません ochimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 落た ochita | 落ました ochimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 落なかった ochinakatta | 落ませんでした ochimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 落て ochite | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 落ている ochiteiru | 落ています ochiteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 落たい ochitai | 落たいです ochitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 落よう ochiyou | 落ましょう ochimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 落られる ochirareru | 落られます ochiraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 落られる ochirareru | 落られます ochiraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 落させる ochisaseru | 落させます ochisasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 落させられる ochisaserareru | 落させられます ochisaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 落ろ ochiro | 落てください ochitekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 落るな ochiruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 落れば ochireba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 落たら ochitara | — | “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.
