預かる (azukaru) conjugation
to keep (something) for (someone)
預かる (あずかる, azukaru) is a godan verb. Godan verbs change their final kana up and down its column of the kana chart — the a-row for negatives, the i-row before ます, the e-row for potential and ば. 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 | 預かる azukaru | 預かります azukarimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 預からない azukaranai | 預かりません azukarimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 預かった azukatta | 預かりました azukarimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 預からなかった azukaranakatta | 預かりませんでした azukarimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 預かって azukatte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 預かっている azukatteiru | 預かっています azukatteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 預かりたい azukaritai | 預かりたいです azukaritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 預かろう azukarou | 預かりましょう azukarimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 預かれる azukareru | 預かれます azukaremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 預かられる azukarareru | 預かられます azukararemasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 預からせる azukaraseru | 預からせます azukarasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 預からされる azukarasareru | 預からされます azukarasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 預かれ azukare | 預かってください azukattekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 預かるな azukaruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 預かれば azukareba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 預かったら azukattara | — | “if / when ~”. The everyday conditional. |
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Why it conjugates this way
Godan verbs change their final kana up and down its column of the kana chart — the a-row for negatives, the i-row before ます, the e-row for potential and ば.
See the full rules on the verb conjugation guide.