裂ける (sakeru) conjugation
to split, to tear, to burst
裂ける (さける, sakeru) 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 | 裂ける sakeru | 裂けます sakemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 裂けない sakenai | 裂けません sakemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 裂けた saketa | 裂けました sakemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 裂けなかった sakenakatta | 裂けませんでした sakemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 裂けて sakete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 裂けている saketeiru | 裂けています saketeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 裂けたい saketai | 裂けたいです saketaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 裂けよう sakeyou | 裂けましょう sakemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 裂けられる sakerareru | 裂けられます sakeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 裂けられる sakerareru | 裂けられます sakeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 裂けさせる sakesaseru | 裂けさせます sakesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 裂けさせられる sakesaserareru | 裂けさせられます sakesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 裂けろ sakero | 裂けてください saketekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 裂けるな sakeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 裂ければ sakereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 裂けたら saketara | — | “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.