洒落る (shareru) conjugation
to joke, to play on words; stylish
洒落る (しゃれる, shareru) 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 | 洒落る shareru | 洒落ます sharemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 洒落ない sharenai | 洒落ません sharemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 洒落た shareta | 洒落ました sharemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 洒落なかった sharenakatta | 洒落ませんでした sharemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 洒落て sharete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 洒落ている shareteiru | 洒落ています shareteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 洒落たい sharetai | 洒落たいです sharetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 洒落よう shareyou | 洒落ましょう sharemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 洒落られる sharerareru | 洒落られます shareraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 洒落られる sharerareru | 洒落られます shareraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 洒落させる sharesaseru | 洒落させます sharesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 洒落させられる sharesaserareru | 洒落させられます sharesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 洒落ろ sharero | 洒落てください sharetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 洒落るな shareruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 洒落れば sharereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 洒落たら sharetara | — | “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.
