擦れる (sureru) conjugation
to rub, to chafe
擦れる (すれる, sureru) 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 | 擦れる sureru | 擦れます suremasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 擦れない surenai | 擦れません suremasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 擦れた sureta | 擦れました suremashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 擦れなかった surenakatta | 擦れませんでした suremasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 擦れて surete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 擦れている sureteiru | 擦れています sureteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 擦れたい suretai | 擦れたいです suretaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 擦れよう sureyou | 擦れましょう suremashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 擦れられる surerareru | 擦れられます sureraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 擦れられる surerareru | 擦れられます sureraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 擦れさせる suresaseru | 擦れさせます suresasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 擦れさせられる suresaserareru | 擦れさせられます suresaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 擦れろ surero | 擦れてください suretekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 擦れるな sureruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 擦れれば surereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 擦れたら suretara | — | “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.