持てる

Japanese

持てる (intransitive, ichidan conjugation, hiragana もてる, hiragana and katakana モテる, rōmaji moteru)

(colloquial) to be popular; to be well-liked by people (e.g. be popular among women)
山 (やま)田 (だ)君 (くん)ってさ、同 (おな)じ学 (がく)年 (ねん)の女 (じょ)子 (し)には人 (にん)気 (き)ないけど、下 (か)級 (きゅう)生 (せい)にはモテるんだよね。
Yamada-kuntte sa, onaji gakunen no joshi ni wa ninki nai kedo, kakyūsei ni wa moterun da yo ne.
Yamada isn't very popular with the girls in his school year, but he's popular amongst the younger students.
to be able to hold; potential form of 持 (も)つ (motsu)
to withstand; endure

This is an example of a word that can be spelled with katakana to convey an informal conversational tone, as モテる.

Conjugation of "持てる" (See Appendix:Japanese verbs.)

Stem forms
Imperfective (未然形)	持て	もて	mote
Continuative (連用形)	持て	もて	mote
Terminal (終止形)	持てる	もてる	moteru
Attributive (連体形)	持てる	もてる	moteru
Hypothetical (仮定形)	持てれ	もてれ	motere
Imperative (命令形)	持てよ¹ 持てろ²	もてよ¹ もてろ²	moteyo¹ motero²
Key constructions
Passive	持てられる	もてられる	moterareru
Causative	持てさせる持てさす	もてさせるもてさす	motesaseru motesasu
Potential	持てられる持てれる³	もてられるもてれる³	moterareru motereru³
Volitional	持てよう	もてよう	moteyō
Negative	持てない持てぬ持てん	もてないもてぬもてん	motenai motenu moten
Negative continuative	持てず	もてず	motezu
Formal	持てます	もてます	motemasu
Perfective	持てた	もてた	moteta
Conjunctive	持てて	もてて	motete
Hypothetical conditional	持てれば	もてれば	motereba
¹ Written imperative ² Spoken imperative ³ Colloquial potential

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