潰れる (tsubureru) conjugation
to be smashed, to go bankrupt
潰れる (つぶれる, tsubureru) 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 | 潰れる tsubureru | 潰れます tsuburemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 潰れない tsuburenai | 潰れません tsuburemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 潰れた tsubureta | 潰れました tsuburemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 潰れなかった tsuburenakatta | 潰れませんでした tsuburemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 潰れて tsuburete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 潰れている tsubureteiru | 潰れています tsubureteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 潰れたい tsuburetai | 潰れたいです tsuburetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 潰れよう tsubureyou | 潰れましょう tsuburemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 潰れられる tsuburerareru | 潰れられます tsubureraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 潰れられる tsuburerareru | 潰れられます tsubureraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 潰れさせる tsuburesaseru | 潰れさせます tsuburesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 潰れさせられる tsuburesaserareru | 潰れさせられます tsuburesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 潰れろ tsuburero | 潰れてください tsuburetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 潰れるな tsubureruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 潰れれば tsuburereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 潰れたら tsuburetara | — | “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.