揺れる (yureru) conjugation
to shake, to sway
揺れる (ゆれる, yureru) 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 | 揺れる yureru | 揺れます yuremasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 揺れない yurenai | 揺れません yuremasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 揺れた yureta | 揺れました yuremashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 揺れなかった yurenakatta | 揺れませんでした yuremasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 揺れて yurete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 揺れている yureteiru | 揺れています yureteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 揺れたい yuretai | 揺れたいです yuretaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 揺れよう yureyou | 揺れましょう yuremashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 揺れられる yurerareru | 揺れられます yureraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 揺れられる yurerareru | 揺れられます yureraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 揺れさせる yuresaseru | 揺れさせます yuresasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 揺れさせられる yuresaserareru | 揺れさせられます yuresaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 揺れろ yurero | 揺れてください yuretekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 揺れるな yureruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 揺れれば yurereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 揺れたら yuretara | — | “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.