抱く (idaku) conjugation
to hold (v.t.) (written expression), to embrace, to harbor
抱く (いだく, idaku) 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 | 抱く idaku | 抱きます idakimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 抱かない idakanai | 抱きません idakimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 抱いた idaita | 抱きました idakimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 抱かなかった idakanakatta | 抱きませんでした idakimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 抱いて idaite | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 抱いている idaiteiru | 抱いています idaiteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 抱きたい idakitai | 抱きたいです idakitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 抱こう idakou | 抱きましょう idakimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 抱ける idakeru | 抱けます idakemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 抱かれる idakareru | 抱かれます idakaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 抱かせる idakaseru | 抱かせます idakasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 抱かされる idakasareru | 抱かされます idakasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 抱け idake | 抱いてください idaitekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 抱くな idakuna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 抱けば idakeba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 抱いたら idaitara | — | “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.