炊く (taku) conjugation
to boil, to cook
炊く (たく, taku) 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 | 炊く taku | 炊きます takimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 炊かない takanai | 炊きません takimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 炊いた taita | 炊きました takimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 炊かなかった takanakatta | 炊きませんでした takimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 炊いて taite | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 炊いている taiteiru | 炊いています taiteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 炊きたい takitai | 炊きたいです takitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 炊こう takou | 炊きましょう takimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 炊ける takeru | 炊けます takemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 炊かれる takareru | 炊かれます takaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 炊かせる takaseru | 炊かせます takasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 炊かされる takasareru | 炊かされます takasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 炊け take | 炊いてください taitekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 炊くな takuna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 炊けば takeba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 炊いたら taitara | — | “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.