当てる (ateru) conjugation
to hit; to apply to
当てる (あてる, ateru) is an ichidan verb. Ichidan verbs are the tidy ones: drop the final る and add the ending. Nothing inside the word ever changes. Every form below is tappable — hear it, then say it back.
Conjugation table
| Form | Plain (casual) | Polite (~ます) | When you use it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dictionary / plain | 当てる ateru | 当てます atemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 当てない atenai | 当てません atemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 当てた ateta | 当てました atemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 当てなかった atenakatta | 当てませんでした atemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 当てて atete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 当てている ateteiru | 当てています ateteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 当てたい atetai | 当てたいです atetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 当てよう ateyou | 当てましょう atemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 当てられる aterareru | 当てられます ateraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 当てられる aterareru | 当てられます ateraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 当てさせる atesaseru | 当てさせます atesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 当てさせられる atesaserareru | 当てさせられます atesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 当てろ atero | 当ててください atetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 当てるな ateruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 当てれば atereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 当てたら atetara | — | “if / when ~”. The everyday conditional. |
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Why it conjugates this way
Ichidan verbs are the tidy ones: drop the final る and add the ending. Nothing inside the word ever changes.
See the full rules on the verb conjugation guide.