即する (sokusuru) conjugation
to conform to, to agree with, to be adapted to,
即する (そくする, sokusuru) is an irregular verb. Only する and 来る are truly irregular, and every learner meets them in week one. 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 | 即する sokusuru | 即します sokushimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 即しない sokushinai | 即しません sokushimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 即した sokushita | 即しました sokushimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 即しなかった sokushinakatta | 即しませんでした sokushimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 即して sokushite | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 即している sokushiteiru | 即しています sokushiteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 即したい sokushitai | 即したいです sokushitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 即しよう sokushiyou | 即しましょう sokushimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 即できる sokudekiru | 即できます sokudekimasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 即される sokusareru | 即されます sokusaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 即させる sokusaseru | 即させます sokusasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 即させられる sokusaserareru | 即させられます sokusaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 即しろ sokushiro | 即してください sokushitekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 即するな sokusuruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 即すれば sokusureba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 即したら sokushitara | — | “if / when ~”. The everyday conditional. |
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Why it conjugates this way
Only する and 来る are truly irregular, and every learner meets them in week one.
See the full rules on the verb conjugation guide.