届ける (todokeru) conjugation
to deliver (v.t.)
届ける (とどける, todokeru) 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 | 届ける todokeru | 届けます todokemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 届けない todokenai | 届けません todokemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 届けた todoketa | 届けました todokemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 届けなかった todokenakatta | 届けませんでした todokemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 届けて todokete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 届けている todoketeiru | 届けています todoketeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 届けたい todoketai | 届けたいです todoketaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 届けよう todokeyou | 届けましょう todokemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 届けられる todokerareru | 届けられます todokeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 届けられる todokerareru | 届けられます todokeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 届けさせる todokesaseru | 届けさせます todokesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 届けさせられる todokesaserareru | 届けさせられます todokesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 届けろ todokero | 届けてください todoketekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 届けるな todokeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 届ければ todokereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 届けたら todoketara | — | “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.