化ける (bakeru) conjugation
to disguise, to take the form of
化ける (ばける, bakeru) 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 | 化ける bakeru | 化けます bakemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 化けない bakenai | 化けません bakemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 化けた baketa | 化けました bakemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 化けなかった bakenakatta | 化けませんでした bakemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 化けて bakete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 化けている baketeiru | 化けています baketeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 化けたい baketai | 化けたいです baketaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 化けよう bakeyou | 化けましょう bakemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 化けられる bakerareru | 化けられます bakeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 化けられる bakerareru | 化けられます bakeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 化けさせる bakesaseru | 化けさせます bakesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 化けさせられる bakesaserareru | 化けさせられます bakesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 化けろ bakero | 化けてください baketekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 化けるな bakeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 化ければ bakereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 化けたら baketara | — | “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.