恐れ入る (osoreiru) conjugation
to be filled with awe, to feel small
恐れ入る (おそれいる, osoreiru) is a godan verb. Godan verbs change their final kana up and down its column of the kana chart — the a-row for negatives, the i-row before ます, the e-row for potential and ば. 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 | 恐れ入る osoreiru | 恐れ入ります osoreirimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 恐れ入らない osoreiranai | 恐れ入りません osoreirimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 恐れ入った osoreitta | 恐れ入りました osoreirimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 恐れ入らなかった osoreiranakatta | 恐れ入りませんでした osoreirimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 恐れ入って osoreitte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 恐れ入っている osoreitteiru | 恐れ入っています osoreitteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 恐れ入りたい osoreiritai | 恐れ入りたいです osoreiritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 恐れ入ろう osoreirou | 恐れ入りましょう osoreirimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 恐れ入れる osoreireru | 恐れ入れます osoreiremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 恐れ入られる osoreirareru | 恐れ入られます osoreiraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 恐れ入らせる osoreiraseru | 恐れ入らせます osoreirasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 恐れ入らされる osoreirasareru | 恐れ入らされます osoreirasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 恐れ入れ osoreire | 恐れ入ってください osoreittekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 恐れ入るな osoreiruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 恐れ入れば osoreireba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 恐れ入ったら osoreittara | — | “if / when ~”. The everyday conditional. |
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Why it conjugates this way
Godan verbs change their final kana up and down its column of the kana chart — the a-row for negatives, the i-row before ます, the e-row for potential and ば.
See the full rules on the verb conjugation guide.