儲ける (moukeru) conjugation
to earn, to have (bear, beget) a child
儲ける (もうける, moukeru) 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 | 儲ける moukeru | 儲けます moukemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 儲けない moukenai | 儲けません moukemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 儲けた mouketa | 儲けました moukemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 儲けなかった moukenakatta | 儲けませんでした moukemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 儲けて moukete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 儲けている mouketeiru | 儲けています mouketeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 儲けたい mouketai | 儲けたいです mouketaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 儲けよう moukeyou | 儲けましょう moukemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 儲けられる moukerareru | 儲けられます moukeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 儲けられる moukerareru | 儲けられます moukeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 儲けさせる moukesaseru | 儲けさせます moukesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 儲けさせられる moukesaserareru | 儲けさせられます moukesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 儲けろ moukero | 儲けてください mouketekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 儲けるな moukeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 儲ければ moukereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 儲けたら mouketara | — | “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.