抜ける (nukeru) conjugation
to come out, to fall out, to be omitted
抜ける (ぬける, nukeru) 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 | 抜ける nukeru | 抜けます nukemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 抜けない nukenai | 抜けません nukemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 抜けた nuketa | 抜けました nukemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 抜けなかった nukenakatta | 抜けませんでした nukemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 抜けて nukete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 抜けている nuketeiru | 抜けています nuketeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 抜けたい nuketai | 抜けたいです nuketaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 抜けよう nukeyou | 抜けましょう nukemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 抜けられる nukerareru | 抜けられます nukeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 抜けられる nukerareru | 抜けられます nukeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 抜けさせる nukesaseru | 抜けさせます nukesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 抜けさせられる nukesaserareru | 抜けさせられます nukesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 抜けろ nukero | 抜けてください nuketekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 抜けるな nukeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 抜ければ nukereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 抜けたら nuketara | — | “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.