出かける (dekakeru) conjugation
to go out; to depart
出かける (でかける, dekakeru) 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 | 出かける dekakeru | 出かけます dekakemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 出かけない dekakenai | 出かけません dekakemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 出かけた dekaketa | 出かけました dekakemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 出かけなかった dekakenakatta | 出かけませんでした dekakemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 出かけて dekakete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 出かけている dekaketeiru | 出かけています dekaketeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 出かけたい dekaketai | 出かけたいです dekaketaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 出かけよう dekakeyou | 出かけましょう dekakemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 出かけられる dekakerareru | 出かけられます dekakeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 出かけられる dekakerareru | 出かけられます dekakeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 出かけさせる dekakesaseru | 出かけさせます dekakesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 出かけさせられる dekakesaserareru | 出かけさせられます dekakesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 出かけろ dekakero | 出かけてください dekaketekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 出かけるな dekakeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 出かければ dekakereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 出かけたら dekaketara | — | “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.