砕ける (kudakeru) conjugation
to break, to be broken
砕ける (くだける, kudakeru) 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 | 砕ける kudakeru | 砕けます kudakemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 砕けない kudakenai | 砕けません kudakemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 砕けた kudaketa | 砕けました kudakemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 砕けなかった kudakenakatta | 砕けませんでした kudakemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 砕けて kudakete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 砕けている kudaketeiru | 砕けています kudaketeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 砕けたい kudaketai | 砕けたいです kudaketaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 砕けよう kudakeyou | 砕けましょう kudakemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 砕けられる kudakerareru | 砕けられます kudakeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 砕けられる kudakerareru | 砕けられます kudakeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 砕けさせる kudakesaseru | 砕けさせます kudakesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 砕けさせられる kudakesaserareru | 砕けさせられます kudakesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 砕けろ kudakero | 砕けてください kudaketekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 砕けるな kudakeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 砕ければ kudakereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 砕けたら kudaketara | — | “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.