垂れる (tareru) conjugation
to hang, to droop; to drip
垂れる (たれる, tareru) 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 | 垂れる tareru | 垂れます taremasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 垂れない tarenai | 垂れません taremasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 垂れた tareta | 垂れました taremashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 垂れなかった tarenakatta | 垂れませんでした taremasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 垂れて tarete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 垂れている tareteiru | 垂れています tareteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 垂れたい taretai | 垂れたいです taretaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 垂れよう tareyou | 垂れましょう taremashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 垂れられる tarerareru | 垂れられます tareraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 垂れられる tarerareru | 垂れられます tareraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 垂れさせる taresaseru | 垂れさせます taresasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 垂れさせられる taresaserareru | 垂れさせられます taresaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 垂れろ tarero | 垂れてください taretekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 垂れるな tareruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 垂れれば tarereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 垂れたら taretara | — | “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.