折れる (oreru) conjugation
to break, to be folded, to give in; to turn (a corner)
折れる (おれる, oreru) 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 | 折れる oreru | 折れます oremasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 折れない orenai | 折れません oremasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 折れた oreta | 折れました oremashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 折れなかった orenakatta | 折れませんでした oremasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 折れて orete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 折れている oreteiru | 折れています oreteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 折れたい oretai | 折れたいです oretaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 折れよう oreyou | 折れましょう oremashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 折れられる orerareru | 折れられます oreraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 折れられる orerareru | 折れられます oreraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 折れさせる oresaseru | 折れさせます oresasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 折れさせられる oresaserareru | 折れさせられます oresaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 折れろ orero | 折れてください oretekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 折れるな oreruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 折れれば orereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 折れたら oretara | — | “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.
