届く (todoku) conjugation
to reach
届く (とどく, todoku) 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 | 届く todoku | 届きます todokimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 届かない todokanai | 届きません todokimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 届いた todoita | 届きました todokimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 届かなかった todokanakatta | 届きませんでした todokimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 届いて todoite | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 届いている todoiteiru | 届いています todoiteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 届きたい todokitai | 届きたいです todokitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 届こう todokou | 届きましょう todokimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 届ける todokeru | 届けます todokemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 届かれる todokareru | 届かれます todokaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 届かせる todokaseru | 届かせます todokasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 届かされる todokasareru | 届かされます todokasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 届け todoke | 届いてください todoitekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 届くな todokuna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 届けば todokeba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 届いたら todoitara | — | “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.