取り立てる (toritateru) conjugation
to collect, to extort
取り立てる (とりたてる, toritateru) 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 | 取り立てる toritateru | 取り立てます toritatemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 取り立てない toritatenai | 取り立てません toritatemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 取り立てた toritateta | 取り立てました toritatemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 取り立てなかった toritatenakatta | 取り立てませんでした toritatemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 取り立てて toritatete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 取り立てている toritateteiru | 取り立てています toritateteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 取り立てたい toritatetai | 取り立てたいです toritatetaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 取り立てよう toritateyou | 取り立てましょう toritatemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 取り立てられる toritaterareru | 取り立てられます toritateraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 取り立てられる toritaterareru | 取り立てられます toritateraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 取り立てさせる toritatesaseru | 取り立てさせます toritatesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 取り立てさせられる toritatesaserareru | 取り立てさせられます toritatesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 取り立てろ toritatero | 取り立ててください toritatetekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 取り立てるな toritateruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 取り立てれば toritatereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 取り立てたら toritatetara | — | “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.