I Love Kanjiもてる (moteru)
もてる is a Japanese verb meaning “to be able to possess (hold, get, etc.)”. It appears in JLPT N1 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.
- Reading
- もてる
- Romaji
- moteru
- Word class
- Ichidan verb (る-verb)
- Level
- JLPT N1 (unofficial)
Meaning
- to be able to possess (hold, get, etc.) · ichidan verb, intransitive
- to be well liked; to be popular; to be pampered (spoiled, doted upon, etc.); to be welcomed · ichidan verb, intransitive
- to endure (the tests of time, the elements, etc.); to last · ichidan verb, intransitive
- possessed; held · pre-noun
- rich; wealthy; affluent · pre-noun
Example sentences
Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.
Conjugation of もてる
Ichidan verb (る-verb). Plain and polite forms below; try any other word in the Japanese verb conjugator.
| Form | Japanese | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| Dictionary | もてる | もてる moteru |
| Polite (~masu) | もてます | もてます motemasu |
| Negative | もてない | もてない motenai |
| Polite negative | もてません | もてません motemasen |
| Past | もてた | もてた moteta |
| Polite past | もてました | もてました motemashita |
| Negative past | もてなかった | もてなかった motenakatta |
| Te-form | もてて | もてて motete |
| Potential | もてられる | もてられる moterareru |
| Passive | もてられる | もてられる moterareru |
| Causative | もてさせる | もてさせる motesaseru |
| Volitional | もてよう | もてよう moteyou |
| Imperative | もてろ | もてろ motero |
| Conditional (~ba) | もてれば | もてれば motereba |
Source: JMdict entry 1315730 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.