解ける (tokeru) conjugation
to come untied, to come apart
解ける (とける, tokeru) 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 | 解ける tokeru | 解けます tokemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 解けない tokenai | 解けません tokemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 解けた toketa | 解けました tokemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 解けなかった tokenakatta | 解けませんでした tokemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 解けて tokete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 解けている toketeiru | 解けています toketeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 解けたい toketai | 解けたいです toketaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 解けよう tokeyou | 解けましょう tokemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 解けられる tokerareru | 解けられます tokeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 解けられる tokerareru | 解けられます tokeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 解けさせる tokesaseru | 解けさせます tokesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 解けさせられる tokesaserareru | 解けさせられます tokesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 解けろ tokero | 解けてください toketekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 解けるな tokeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 解ければ tokereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 解けたら toketara | — | “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.
