預ける (azukeru) conjugation
to give into custody, to deposit
預ける (あずける, azukeru) 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 | 預ける azukeru | 預けます azukemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 預けない azukenai | 預けません azukemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 預けた azuketa | 預けました azukemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 預けなかった azukenakatta | 預けませんでした azukemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 預けて azukete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 預けている azuketeiru | 預けています azuketeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 預けたい azuketai | 預けたいです azuketaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 預けよう azukeyou | 預けましょう azukemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 預けられる azukerareru | 預けられます azukeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 預けられる azukerareru | 預けられます azukeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 預けさせる azukesaseru | 預けさせます azukesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 預けさせられる azukesaserareru | 預けさせられます azukesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 預けろ azukero | 預けてください azuketekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 預けるな azukeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 預ければ azukereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 預けたら azuketara | — | “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.