迎える (mukaeru) conjugation
to welcome; to meet; to greet
迎える (むかえる, mukaeru) 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 | 迎える mukaeru | 迎えます mukaemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 迎えない mukaenai | 迎えません mukaemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 迎えた mukaeta | 迎えました mukaemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 迎えなかった mukaenakatta | 迎えませんでした mukaemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 迎えて mukaete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 迎えている mukaeteiru | 迎えています mukaeteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 迎えたい mukaetai | 迎えたいです mukaetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 迎えよう mukaeyou | 迎えましょう mukaemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 迎えられる mukaerareru | 迎えられます mukaeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 迎えられる mukaerareru | 迎えられます mukaeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 迎えさせる mukaesaseru | 迎えさせます mukaesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 迎えさせられる mukaesaserareru | 迎えさせられます mukaesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 迎えろ mukaero | 迎えてください mukaetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 迎えるな mukaeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 迎えれば mukaereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 迎えたら mukaetara | — | “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.