老ける (fukeru) conjugation
to age
老ける (ふける, fukeru) 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 | 老ける fukeru | 老けます fukemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 老けない fukenai | 老けません fukemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 老けた fuketa | 老けました fukemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 老けなかった fukenakatta | 老けませんでした fukemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 老けて fukete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 老けている fuketeiru | 老けています fuketeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 老けたい fuketai | 老けたいです fuketaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 老けよう fukeyou | 老けましょう fukemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 老けられる fukerareru | 老けられます fukeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 老けられる fukerareru | 老けられます fukeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 老けさせる fukesaseru | 老けさせます fukesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 老けさせられる fukesaserareru | 老けさせられます fukesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 老けろ fukero | 老けてください fuketekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 老けるな fukeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 老ければ fukereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 老けたら fuketara | — | “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.