分かれる (wakareru) conjugation
to branch off, to diverge from
分かれる (わかれる, wakareru) 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 | 分かれる wakareru | 分かれます wakaremasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 分かれない wakarenai | 分かれません wakaremasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 分かれた wakareta | 分かれました wakaremashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 分かれなかった wakarenakatta | 分かれませんでした wakaremasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 分かれて wakarete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 分かれている wakareteiru | 分かれています wakareteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 分かれたい wakaretai | 分かれたいです wakaretaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 分かれよう wakareyou | 分かれましょう wakaremashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 分かれられる wakarerareru | 分かれられます wakareraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 分かれられる wakarerareru | 分かれられます wakareraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 分かれさせる wakaresaseru | 分かれさせます wakaresasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 分かれさせられる wakaresaserareru | 分かれさせられます wakaresaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 分かれろ wakarero | 分かれてください wakaretekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 分かれるな wakareruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 分かれれば wakarereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 分かれたら wakaretara | — | “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.