漬ける (tsukeru) conjugation
to soak, to moisten, to pickle
漬ける (つける, tsukeru) 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 | 漬ける tsukeru | 漬けます tsukemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 漬けない tsukenai | 漬けません tsukemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 漬けた tsuketa | 漬けました tsukemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 漬けなかった tsukenakatta | 漬けませんでした tsukemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 漬けて tsukete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 漬けている tsuketeiru | 漬けています tsuketeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 漬けたい tsuketai | 漬けたいです tsuketaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 漬けよう tsukeyou | 漬けましょう tsukemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 漬けられる tsukerareru | 漬けられます tsukeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 漬けられる tsukerareru | 漬けられます tsukeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 漬けさせる tsukesaseru | 漬けさせます tsukesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 漬けさせられる tsukesaserareru | 漬けさせられます tsukesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 漬けろ tsukero | 漬けてください tsuketekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 漬けるな tsukeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 漬ければ tsukereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 漬けたら tsuketara | — | “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.