疲れる (tsukareru) conjugation
to get (become) tired; to become fatigued
疲れる (つかれる, tsukareru) 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 | 疲れる tsukareru | 疲れます tsukaremasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 疲れない tsukarenai | 疲れません tsukaremasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 疲れた tsukareta | 疲れました tsukaremashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 疲れなかった tsukarenakatta | 疲れませんでした tsukaremasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 疲れて tsukarete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 疲れている tsukareteiru | 疲れています tsukareteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 疲れたい tsukaretai | 疲れたいです tsukaretaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 疲れよう tsukareyou | 疲れましょう tsukaremashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 疲れられる tsukarerareru | 疲れられます tsukareraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 疲れられる tsukarerareru | 疲れられます tsukareraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 疲れさせる tsukaresaseru | 疲れさせます tsukaresasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 疲れさせられる tsukaresaserareru | 疲れさせられます tsukaresaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 疲れろ tsukarero | 疲れてください tsukaretekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 疲れるな tsukareruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 疲れれば tsukarereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 疲れたら tsukaretara | — | “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.