隔てる (hedateru) conjugation
to be shut out
隔てる (へだてる, hedateru) 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 | 隔てる hedateru | 隔てます hedatemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 隔てない hedatenai | 隔てません hedatemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 隔てた hedateta | 隔てました hedatemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 隔てなかった hedatenakatta | 隔てませんでした hedatemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 隔てて hedatete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 隔てている hedateteiru | 隔てています hedateteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 隔てたい hedatetai | 隔てたいです hedatetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 隔てよう hedateyou | 隔てましょう hedatemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 隔てられる hedaterareru | 隔てられます hedateraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 隔てられる hedaterareru | 隔てられます hedateraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 隔てさせる hedatesaseru | 隔てさせます hedatesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 隔てさせられる hedatesaserareru | 隔てさせられます hedatesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 隔てろ hedatero | 隔ててください hedatetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 隔てるな hedateruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 隔てれば hedatereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 隔てたら hedatetara | — | “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.