引取る (hikitoru) conjugation
to take back; to adopt; to leave
引取る (ひきとる, hikitoru) is a godan verb. Godan verbs change their final kana up and down its column of the kana chart — the a-row for negatives, the i-row before ます, the e-row for potential and ば. 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 | 引取る hikitoru | 引取ります hikitorimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 引取らない hikitoranai | 引取りません hikitorimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 引取った hikitotta | 引取りました hikitorimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 引取らなかった hikitoranakatta | 引取りませんでした hikitorimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 引取って hikitotte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 引取っている hikitotteiru | 引取っています hikitotteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 引取りたい hikitoritai | 引取りたいです hikitoritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 引取ろう hikitorou | 引取りましょう hikitorimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 引取れる hikitoreru | 引取れます hikitoremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 引取られる hikitorareru | 引取られます hikitoraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 引取らせる hikitoraseru | 引取らせます hikitorasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 引取らされる hikitorasareru | 引取らされます hikitorasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 引取れ hikitore | 引取ってください hikitottekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 引取るな hikitoruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 引取れば hikitoreba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 引取ったら hikitottara | — | “if / when ~”. The everyday conditional. |
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Why it conjugates this way
Godan verbs change their final kana up and down its column of the kana chart — the a-row for negatives, the i-row before ます, the e-row for potential and ば.
See the full rules on the verb conjugation guide.