退ける (dokeru) conjugation
to dislodge, to put something out of the way
退ける (どける, dokeru) 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 | 退ける dokeru | 退けます dokemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 退けない dokenai | 退けません dokemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 退けた doketa | 退けました dokemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 退けなかった dokenakatta | 退けませんでした dokemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 退けて dokete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 退けている doketeiru | 退けています doketeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 退けたい doketai | 退けたいです doketaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 退けよう dokeyou | 退けましょう dokemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 退けられる dokerareru | 退けられます dokeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 退けられる dokerareru | 退けられます dokeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 退けさせる dokesaseru | 退けさせます dokesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 退けさせられる dokesaserareru | 退けさせられます dokesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 退けろ dokero | 退けてください doketekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 退けるな dokeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 退ければ dokereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 退けたら doketara | — | “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.