売れる (ureru) conjugation
to be sold
売れる (うれる, ureru) 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 | 売れる ureru | 売れます uremasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 売れない urenai | 売れません uremasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 売れた ureta | 売れました uremashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 売れなかった urenakatta | 売れませんでした uremasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 売れて urete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 売れている ureteiru | 売れています ureteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 売れたい uretai | 売れたいです uretaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 売れよう ureyou | 売れましょう uremashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 売れられる urerareru | 売れられます ureraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 売れられる urerareru | 売れられます ureraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 売れさせる uresaseru | 売れさせます uresasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 売れさせられる uresaserareru | 売れさせられます uresaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 売れろ urero | 売れてください uretekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 売れるな ureruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 売れれば urereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 売れたら uretara | — | “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.