01simple
I eat an apple.
りんごを食べる。
ichidan verb (v1, vt) · N5
食べるtaberu
to eat
- to live one.g. a salary
- to live off
- to subsist on
Remember it
たべる sounds like TABLE. Picture a wooden dining TABLE that has come alive — stubby legs, a hungry cartoon face, chopsticks in tiny wooden hands — perched on a chair, gleefully shoveling rice into its mouth. A TABLE that eats. Tables are for taberu-ing.
Forms
Non-past affirmative | Past affirmative | Non-past negative | Past negative | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Informal plain form | 食べる | 食べた | 食べない | 食べなかった |
Formal -masu base | 食べます | 食べました | 食べません | 食べませんでした |
te-form
食べて
connector — “… and then”
Ichidan verb — drop る, add the ending. Same pattern every time.
Examples
02natural
I often eat bread in the morning.
朝はよくパンを食べます。
03real usage
I did not have time, so I grabbed something light at the station.
時間がないので、駅で軽く食べた。
Learning status
learning
Recognition3 / 5
Recall2 / 5
Reading4 / 5