傾ける (katamukeru) conjugation
to incline, to tilt, to bend
傾ける (かたむける, katamukeru) 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 | 傾ける katamukeru | 傾けます katamukemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 傾けない katamukenai | 傾けません katamukemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 傾けた katamuketa | 傾けました katamukemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 傾けなかった katamukenakatta | 傾けませんでした katamukemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 傾けて katamukete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 傾けている katamuketeiru | 傾けています katamuketeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 傾けたい katamuketai | 傾けたいです katamuketaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 傾けよう katamukeyou | 傾けましょう katamukemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 傾けられる katamukerareru | 傾けられます katamukeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 傾けられる katamukerareru | 傾けられます katamukeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 傾けさせる katamukesaseru | 傾けさせます katamukesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 傾けさせられる katamukesaserareru | 傾けさせられます katamukesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 傾けろ katamukero | 傾けてください katamuketekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 傾けるな katamukeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 傾ければ katamukereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 傾けたら katamuketara | — | “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.