汚れる (yogoreru) conjugation
to become dirty
汚れる (よごれる, yogoreru) 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 | 汚れる yogoreru | 汚れます yogoremasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 汚れない yogorenai | 汚れません yogoremasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 汚れた yogoreta | 汚れました yogoremashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 汚れなかった yogorenakatta | 汚れませんでした yogoremasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 汚れて yogorete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 汚れている yogoreteiru | 汚れています yogoreteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 汚れたい yogoretai | 汚れたいです yogoretaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 汚れよう yogoreyou | 汚れましょう yogoremashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 汚れられる yogorerareru | 汚れられます yogoreraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 汚れられる yogorerareru | 汚れられます yogoreraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 汚れさせる yogoresaseru | 汚れさせます yogoresasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 汚れさせられる yogoresaserareru | 汚れさせられます yogoresaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 汚れろ yogorero | 汚れてください yogoretekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 汚れるな yogoreruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 汚れれば yogorereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 汚れたら yogoretara | — | “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.