傾く (katamuku) conjugation
to incline toward, to slant, to lurch
傾く (かたむく, katamuku) 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 | 傾く katamuku | 傾きます katamukimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 傾かない katamukanai | 傾きません katamukimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 傾いた katamuita | 傾きました katamukimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 傾かなかった katamukanakatta | 傾きませんでした katamukimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 傾いて katamuite | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 傾いている katamuiteiru | 傾いています katamuiteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 傾きたい katamukitai | 傾きたいです katamukitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 傾こう katamukou | 傾きましょう katamukimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 傾ける katamukeru | 傾けます katamukemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 傾かれる katamukareru | 傾かれます katamukaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 傾かせる katamukaseru | 傾かせます katamukasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 傾かされる katamukasareru | 傾かされます katamukasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 傾け katamuke | 傾いてください katamuitekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 傾くな katamukuna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 傾けば katamukeba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 傾いたら katamuitara | — | “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.