率いる (hikiiru) conjugation
to lead, to spearhead (a group), to command (troops)
率いる (ひきいる, hikiiru) 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 | 率いる hikiiru | 率います hikiimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 率いない hikiinai | 率いません hikiimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 率いた hikiita | 率いました hikiimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 率いなかった hikiinakatta | 率いませんでした hikiimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 率いて hikiite | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 率いている hikiiteiru | 率いています hikiiteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 率いたい hikiitai | 率いたいです hikiitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 率いよう hikiiyou | 率いましょう hikiimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 率いられる hikiirareru | 率いられます hikiiraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 率いられる hikiirareru | 率いられます hikiiraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 率いさせる hikiisaseru | 率いさせます hikiisasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 率いさせられる hikiisaserareru | 率いさせられます hikiisaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 率いろ hikiiro | 率いてください hikiitekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 率いるな hikiiruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 率いれば hikiireba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 率いたら hikiitara | — | “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.