辿り着く (tadoritsuku) conjugation
to reach, to make it somehow
辿り着く (たどりつく, tadoritsuku) is a godan verb. Godan verbs change their final kana up and down its column of the kana chart — the a-row for negatives, the i-row before ます, the e-row for potential and ば. 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 | 辿り着く tadoritsuku | 辿り着きます tadoritsukimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 辿り着かない tadoritsukanai | 辿り着きません tadoritsukimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 辿り着いた tadoritsuita | 辿り着きました tadoritsukimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 辿り着かなかった tadoritsukanakatta | 辿り着きませんでした tadoritsukimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 辿り着いて tadoritsuite | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 辿り着いている tadoritsuiteiru | 辿り着いています tadoritsuiteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 辿り着きたい tadoritsukitai | 辿り着きたいです tadoritsukitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 辿り着こう tadoritsukou | 辿り着きましょう tadoritsukimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 辿り着ける tadoritsukeru | 辿り着けます tadoritsukemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 辿り着かれる tadoritsukareru | 辿り着かれます tadoritsukaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 辿り着かせる tadoritsukaseru | 辿り着かせます tadoritsukasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 辿り着かされる tadoritsukasareru | 辿り着かされます tadoritsukasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 辿り着け tadoritsuke | 辿り着いてください tadoritsuitekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 辿り着くな tadoritsukuna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 辿り着けば tadoritsukeba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 辿り着いたら tadoritsuitara | — | “if / when ~”. The everyday conditional. |
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Why it conjugates this way
Godan verbs change their final kana up and down its column of the kana chart — the a-row for negatives, the i-row before ます, the e-row for potential and ば.
See the full rules on the verb conjugation guide.