話し掛ける (hanashikakeru) conjugation
to accost a person, to talk (to someone)
話し掛ける (はなしかける, hanashikakeru) 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 | 話し掛ける hanashikakeru | 話し掛けます hanashikakemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 話し掛けない hanashikakenai | 話し掛けません hanashikakemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 話し掛けた hanashikaketa | 話し掛けました hanashikakemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 話し掛けなかった hanashikakenakatta | 話し掛けませんでした hanashikakemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 話し掛けて hanashikakete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 話し掛けている hanashikaketeiru | 話し掛けています hanashikaketeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 話し掛けたい hanashikaketai | 話し掛けたいです hanashikaketaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 話し掛けよう hanashikakeyou | 話し掛けましょう hanashikakemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 話し掛けられる hanashikakerareru | 話し掛けられます hanashikakeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 話し掛けられる hanashikakerareru | 話し掛けられます hanashikakeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 話し掛けさせる hanashikakesaseru | 話し掛けさせます hanashikakesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 話し掛けさせられる hanashikakesaserareru | 話し掛けさせられます hanashikakesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 話し掛けろ hanashikakero | 話し掛けてください hanashikaketekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 話し掛けるな hanashikakeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 話し掛ければ hanashikakereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 話し掛けたら hanashikaketara | — | “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.