受かる (ukaru) conjugation
to pass (examination)
受かる (うかる, ukaru) 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 | 受かる ukaru | 受かります ukarimasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 受からない ukaranai | 受かりません ukarimasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 受かった ukatta | 受かりました ukarimashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 受からなかった ukaranakatta | 受かりませんでした ukarimasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 受かって ukatte | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 受かっている ukatteiru | 受かっています ukatteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 受かりたい ukaritai | 受かりたいです ukaritaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 受かろう ukarou | 受かりましょう ukarimashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 受かれる ukareru | 受かれます ukaremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 受かられる ukarareru | 受かられます ukararemasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 受からせる ukaraseru | 受からせます ukarasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 受からされる ukarasareru | 受からされます ukarasaremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 受かれ ukare | 受かってください ukattekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 受かるな ukaruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 受かれば ukareba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 受かったら ukattara | — | “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.