和らげる (yawarageru) conjugation
to soften, to moderate, to relieve
和らげる (やわらげる, yawarageru) 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 | 和らげる yawarageru | 和らげます yawaragemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 和らげない yawaragenai | 和らげません yawaragemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 和らげた yawarageta | 和らげました yawaragemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 和らげなかった yawaragenakatta | 和らげませんでした yawaragemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 和らげて yawaragete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 和らげている yawarageteiru | 和らげています yawarageteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 和らげたい yawaragetai | 和らげたいです yawaragetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 和らげよう yawarageyou | 和らげましょう yawaragemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 和らげられる yawaragerareru | 和らげられます yawarageraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 和らげられる yawaragerareru | 和らげられます yawarageraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 和らげさせる yawaragesaseru | 和らげさせます yawaragesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 和らげさせられる yawaragesaserareru | 和らげさせられます yawaragesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 和らげろ yawaragero | 和らげてください yawaragetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 和らげるな yawarageruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 和らげれば yawaragereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 和らげたら yawaragetara | — | “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.
