JLPT N1 · Verb

ばてる (bateru)

ばてる is a Japanese verb meaning “to be exhausted; to be worn out”. It appears in JLPT N1 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading
ばてる
Romaji
bateru
Word class
Ichidan verb (る-verb)
Level
JLPT N1 (unofficial)

Meaning

  1. to be exhausted; to be worn out · ichidan verb, intransitive · colloquial

Example sentences

彼はすっかりばてていたが、働き続けなければならなかった。
Although he was exhausted, he had to keep working.

Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.

Conjugation of ばてる

Ichidan verb (る-verb). Plain and polite forms below; try any other word in the Japanese verb conjugator.

FormJapaneseReading
Dictionaryばてるばてる bateru
Polite (~masu)ばてますばてます batemasu
Negativeばてないばてない batenai
Polite negativeばてませんばてません batemasen
Pastばてたばてた bateta
Polite pastばてましたばてました batemashita
Negative pastばてなかったばてなかった batenakatta
Te-formばててばてて batete
Potentialばてられるばてられる baterareru
Passiveばてられるばてられる baterareru
Causativeばてさせるばてさせる batesaseru
Volitionalばてようばてよう bateyou
Imperativeばてろばてろ batero
Conditional (~ba)ばてればばてれば batereba

Source: JMdict entry 1010300 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.