仕掛ける (shikakeru) conjugation
to lay, to set, to wage
仕掛ける (しかける, shikakeru) 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 | 仕掛ける shikakeru | 仕掛けます shikakemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 仕掛けない shikakenai | 仕掛けません shikakemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 仕掛けた shikaketa | 仕掛けました shikakemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 仕掛けなかった shikakenakatta | 仕掛けませんでした shikakemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 仕掛けて shikakete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 仕掛けている shikaketeiru | 仕掛けています shikaketeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 仕掛けたい shikaketai | 仕掛けたいです shikaketaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 仕掛けよう shikakeyou | 仕掛けましょう shikakemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 仕掛けられる shikakerareru | 仕掛けられます shikakeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 仕掛けられる shikakerareru | 仕掛けられます shikakeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 仕掛けさせる shikakesaseru | 仕掛けさせます shikakesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 仕掛けさせられる shikakesaserareru | 仕掛けさせられます shikakesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 仕掛けろ shikakero | 仕掛けてください shikaketekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 仕掛けるな shikakeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 仕掛ければ shikakereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 仕掛けたら shikaketara | — | “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.