名付ける (nazukeru) conjugation
to name
名付ける (なづける, nazukeru) 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 | 名付ける nazukeru | 名付けます nazukemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 名付けない nazukenai | 名付けません nazukemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 名付けた nazuketa | 名付けました nazukemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 名付けなかった nazukenakatta | 名付けませんでした nazukemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 名付けて nazukete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 名付けている nazuketeiru | 名付けています nazuketeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 名付けたい nazuketai | 名付けたいです nazuketaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 名付けよう nazukeyou | 名付けましょう nazukemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 名付けられる nazukerareru | 名付けられます nazukeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 名付けられる nazukerareru | 名付けられます nazukeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 名付けさせる nazukesaseru | 名付けさせます nazukesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 名付けさせられる nazukesaserareru | 名付けさせられます nazukesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 名付けろ nazukero | 名付けてください nazuketekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 名付けるな nazukeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 名付ければ nazukereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 名付けたら nazuketara | — | “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.