追いかける (oikakeru) conjugation
to chase or run after someone
追いかける (おいかける, oikakeru) 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 | 追いかける oikakeru | 追いかけます oikakemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 追いかけない oikakenai | 追いかけません oikakemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 追いかけた oikaketa | 追いかけました oikakemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 追いかけなかった oikakenakatta | 追いかけませんでした oikakemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 追いかけて oikakete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 追いかけている oikaketeiru | 追いかけています oikaketeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 追いかけたい oikaketai | 追いかけたいです oikaketaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 追いかけよう oikakeyou | 追いかけましょう oikakemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 追いかけられる oikakerareru | 追いかけられます oikakeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 追いかけられる oikakerareru | 追いかけられます oikakeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 追いかけさせる oikakesaseru | 追いかけさせます oikakesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 追いかけさせられる oikakesaserareru | 追いかけさせられます oikakesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 追いかけろ oikakero | 追いかけてください oikaketekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 追いかけるな oikakeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 追いかければ oikakereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 追いかけたら oikaketara | — | “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.
