任せる (makaseru) conjugation
to entrust to another, to leave to
任せる (まかせる, makaseru) 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 | 任せる makaseru | 任せます makasemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 任せない makasenai | 任せません makasemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 任せた makaseta | 任せました makasemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 任せなかった makasenakatta | 任せませんでした makasemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 任せて makasete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 任せている makaseteiru | 任せています makaseteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 任せたい makasetai | 任せたいです makasetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 任せよう makaseyou | 任せましょう makasemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 任せられる makaserareru | 任せられます makaseraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 任せられる makaserareru | 任せられます makaseraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 任せさせる makasesaseru | 任せさせます makasesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 任せさせられる makasesaserareru | 任せさせられます makasesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 任せろ makasero | 任せてください makasetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 任せるな makaseruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 任せれば makasereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 任せたら makasetara | — | “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.
