飢える (ueru) conjugation
to starve
飢える (うえる, ueru) 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 | 飢える ueru | 飢えます uemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 飢えない uenai | 飢えません uemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 飢えた ueta | 飢えました uemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 飢えなかった uenakatta | 飢えませんでした uemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 飢えて uete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 飢えている ueteiru | 飢えています ueteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 飢えたい uetai | 飢えたいです uetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 飢えよう ueyou | 飢えましょう uemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 飢えられる uerareru | 飢えられます ueraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 飢えられる uerareru | 飢えられます ueraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 飢えさせる uesaseru | 飢えさせます uesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 飢えさせられる uesaserareru | 飢えさせられます uesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 飢えろ uero | 飢えてください uetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 飢えるな ueruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 飢えれば uereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 飢えたら uetara | — | “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.