引受る (hikiukeru) conjugation
to undertake, to take up, to take over
引受る (ひきうける, hikiukeru) 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 | 引受る hikiukeru | 引受ます hikiukemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 引受ない hikiukenai | 引受ません hikiukemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 引受た hikiuketa | 引受ました hikiukemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 引受なかった hikiukenakatta | 引受ませんでした hikiukemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 引受て hikiukete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 引受ている hikiuketeiru | 引受ています hikiuketeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 引受たい hikiuketai | 引受たいです hikiuketaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 引受よう hikiukeyou | 引受ましょう hikiukemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 引受られる hikiukerareru | 引受られます hikiukeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 引受られる hikiukerareru | 引受られます hikiukeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 引受させる hikiukesaseru | 引受させます hikiukesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 引受させられる hikiukesaserareru | 引受させられます hikiukesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 引受ろ hikiukero | 引受てください hikiuketekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 引受るな hikiukeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 引受れば hikiukereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 引受たら hikiuketara | — | “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.