受け入れる (ukeireru) conjugation
to accept, to receive
受け入れる (うけいれる, ukeireru) 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 | 受け入れる ukeireru | 受け入れます ukeiremasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 受け入れない ukeirenai | 受け入れません ukeiremasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 受け入れた ukeireta | 受け入れました ukeiremashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 受け入れなかった ukeirenakatta | 受け入れませんでした ukeiremasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 受け入れて ukeirete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 受け入れている ukeireteiru | 受け入れています ukeireteimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 受け入れたい ukeiretai | 受け入れたいです ukeiretaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 受け入れよう ukeireyou | 受け入れましょう ukeiremashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 受け入れられる ukeirerareru | 受け入れられます ukeireraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 受け入れられる ukeirerareru | 受け入れられます ukeireraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 受け入れさせる ukeiresaseru | 受け入れさせます ukeiresasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 受け入れさせられる ukeiresaserareru | 受け入れさせられます ukeiresaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 受け入れろ ukeirero | 受け入れてください ukeiretekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 受け入れるな ukeireruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 受け入れれば ukeirereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 受け入れたら ukeiretara | — | “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.