打ち込む (uchikomu) conjugation
to devote oneself to, to shoot into
打ち込む (うちこむ, uchikomu) is a godan verb. Godan verbs change their final kana up and down its column of the kana chart — the a-row for negatives, the i-row before ます, the e-row for potential and ば. 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 | 打ち込む uchikomu | 打ち込みます uchikomimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 打ち込まない uchikomanai | 打ち込みません uchikomimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 打ち込んだ uchikonda | 打ち込みました uchikomimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 打ち込まなかった uchikomanakatta | 打ち込みませんでした uchikomimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 打ち込んで uchikonde | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 打ち込んでいる uchikondeiru | 打ち込んでいます uchikondeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 打ち込みたい uchikomitai | 打ち込みたいです uchikomitaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 打ち込もう uchikomou | 打ち込みましょう uchikomimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 打ち込める uchikomeru | 打ち込めます uchikomemasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 打ち込まれる uchikomareru | 打ち込まれます uchikomaremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 打ち込ませる uchikomaseru | 打ち込ませます uchikomasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 打ち込まされる uchikomasareru | 打ち込まされます uchikomasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 打ち込め uchikome | 打ち込んでください uchikondekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 打ち込むな uchikomuna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 打ち込めば uchikomeba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 打ち込んだら uchikondara | — | “if / when ~”. The everyday conditional. |
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Why it conjugates this way
Godan verbs change their final kana up and down its column of the kana chart — the a-row for negatives, the i-row before ます, the e-row for potential and ば.
See the full rules on the verb conjugation guide.