向ける (mukeru) conjugation
to turn towards, to point
向ける (むける, mukeru) 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 | 向ける mukeru | 向けます mukemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 向けない mukenai | 向けません mukemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 向けた muketa | 向けました mukemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 向けなかった mukenakatta | 向けませんでした mukemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 向けて mukete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 向けている muketeiru | 向けています muketeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 向けたい muketai | 向けたいです muketaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 向けよう mukeyou | 向けましょう mukemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 向けられる mukerareru | 向けられます mukeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 向けられる mukerareru | 向けられます mukeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 向けさせる mukesaseru | 向けさせます mukesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 向けさせられる mukesaserareru | 向けさせられます mukesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 向けろ mukero | 向けてください muketekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 向けるな mukeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 向ければ mukereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 向けたら muketara | — | “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.