取れる (toreru) conjugation
to come off, to be taken off
取れる (とれる, toreru) 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 | 取れる toreru | 取れます toremasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 取れない torenai | 取れません toremasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 取れた toreta | 取れました toremashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 取れなかった torenakatta | 取れませんでした toremasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 取れて torete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 取れている toreteiru | 取れています toreteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 取れたい toretai | 取れたいです toretaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 取れよう toreyou | 取れましょう toremashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 取れられる torerareru | 取れられます toreraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 取れられる torerareru | 取れられます toreraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 取れさせる toresaseru | 取れさせます toresasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 取れさせられる toresaserareru | 取れさせられます toresaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 取れろ torero | 取れてください toretekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 取れるな toreruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 取れれば torereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 取れたら toretara | — | “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.