湿気る (shikeru) conjugation
to be damp, to be moist
湿気る (しける, shikeru) 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 | 湿気る shikeru | 湿気ます shikemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 湿気ない shikenai | 湿気ません shikemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 湿気た shiketa | 湿気ました shikemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 湿気なかった shikenakatta | 湿気ませんでした shikemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 湿気て shikete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 湿気ている shiketeiru | 湿気ています shiketeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 湿気たい shiketai | 湿気たいです shiketaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 湿気よう shikeyou | 湿気ましょう shikemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 湿気られる shikerareru | 湿気られます shikeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 湿気られる shikerareru | 湿気られます shikeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 湿気させる shikesaseru | 湿気させます shikesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 湿気させられる shikesaserareru | 湿気させられます shikesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 湿気ろ shikero | 湿気てください shiketekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 湿気るな shikeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 湿気れば shikereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 湿気たら shiketara | — | “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.
