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