下りる (oriru) conjugation
to get down, to go; come down
下りる (おりる, oriru) 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 | 下りる oriru | 下ります orimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 下りない orinai | 下りません orimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 下りた orita | 下りました orimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 下りなかった orinakatta | 下りませんでした orimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 下りて orite | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 下りている oriteiru | 下りています oriteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 下りたい oritai | 下りたいです oritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 下りよう oriyou | 下りましょう orimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 下りられる orirareru | 下りられます oriraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 下りられる orirareru | 下りられます oriraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 下りさせる orisaseru | 下りさせます orisasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 下りさせられる orisaserareru | 下りさせられます orisaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 下りろ oriro | 下りてください oritekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 下りるな oriruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 下りれば orireba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 下りたら oritara | — | “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.