打ち明ける (uchiakeru) conjugation
to confess, to be open
打ち明ける (うちあける, uchiakeru) 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 | 打ち明ける uchiakeru | 打ち明けます uchiakemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 打ち明けない uchiakenai | 打ち明けません uchiakemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 打ち明けた uchiaketa | 打ち明けました uchiakemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 打ち明けなかった uchiakenakatta | 打ち明けませんでした uchiakemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 打ち明けて uchiakete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 打ち明けている uchiaketeiru | 打ち明けています uchiaketeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 打ち明けたい uchiaketai | 打ち明けたいです uchiaketaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 打ち明けよう uchiakeyou | 打ち明けましょう uchiakemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 打ち明けられる uchiakerareru | 打ち明けられます uchiakeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 打ち明けられる uchiakerareru | 打ち明けられます uchiakeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 打ち明けさせる uchiakesaseru | 打ち明けさせます uchiakesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 打ち明けさせられる uchiakesaserareru | 打ち明けさせられます uchiakesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 打ち明けろ uchiakero | 打ち明けてください uchiaketekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 打ち明けるな uchiakeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 打ち明ければ uchiakereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 打ち明けたら uchiaketara | — | “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.