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