落着く (ochitsuku) conjugation
to calm down, to settle down
落着く (おちつく, ochitsuku) is a godan verb. Godan verbs change their final kana up and down its column of the kana chart — the a-row for negatives, the i-row before ます, the e-row for potential and ば. 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 | 落着く ochitsuku | 落着きます ochitsukimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 落着かない ochitsukanai | 落着きません ochitsukimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 落着いた ochitsuita | 落着きました ochitsukimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 落着かなかった ochitsukanakatta | 落着きませんでした ochitsukimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 落着いて ochitsuite | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 落着いている ochitsuiteiru | 落着いています ochitsuiteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 落着きたい ochitsukitai | 落着きたいです ochitsukitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 落着こう ochitsukou | 落着きましょう ochitsukimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 落着ける ochitsukeru | 落着けます ochitsukemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 落着かれる ochitsukareru | 落着かれます ochitsukaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 落着かせる ochitsukaseru | 落着かせます ochitsukasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 落着かされる ochitsukasareru | 落着かされます ochitsukasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 落着け ochitsuke | 落着いてください ochitsuitekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 落着くな ochitsukuna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 落着けば ochitsukeba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 落着いたら ochitsuitara | — | “if / when ~”. The everyday conditional. |
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Why it conjugates this way
Godan verbs change their final kana up and down its column of the kana chart — the a-row for negatives, the i-row before ます, the e-row for potential and ば.
See the full rules on the verb conjugation guide.