About the Potential Form of Verbs 「られる」


The Potential Form (can) usually is conjugated by replacing whatever verb
ending is based on the verb group. However, I noticed that some verbs such as
たべられる can also be written as たべれる. What's the distinction between using られる
and れる? Moreover, can this also be applied to ichidan verbs?




In a phenomenon called ら抜き, 'ra-omission', the _potential_ form of the 下一段 and
上一段 活用, as well as that of the カ変活, I believe, can be truncated to merely ～れる.
This omission is rather marked in its colloquiality, and is consequently
frowned upon formally.

