受ける (ukeru) conjugation
to take (an examination, interview, etc.); to receive
受ける (うける, ukeru) 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 | 受ける ukeru | 受けます ukemasu | The form you look up. Also the casual present and future. |
| Plain negative | 受けない ukenai | 受けません ukemasen | “doesn’t / won’t”. From here it conjugates like an i-adjective. |
| Plain past | 受けた uketa | 受けました ukemashita | The casual past — same ending as the te-form, with た/だ. |
| Plain past negative | 受けなかった ukenakatta | 受けませんでした ukemasendeshita | “didn’t”. The negative past, still i-adjective-shaped. |
| Te-form | 受けて ukete | — | The connector: requests, linking clauses, ~ている. |
| Progressive (~ている) | 受けている uketeiru | 受けています uketeimasu | “is ~ing”, or an ongoing resulting state. |
| Desire (~たい) | 受けたい uketai | 受けたいです uketaidesu | “want to ~”. Behaves as an i-adjective. |
| Volitional | 受けよう ukeyou | 受けましょう ukemashou | “let’s ~” / “I think I’ll ~”. |
| Potential | 受けられる ukerareru | 受けられます ukeraremasu | “can ~”. What you could do; the object often takes が. |
| Passive | 受けられる ukerareru | 受けられます ukeraremasu | “is ~ed”. Also the honorific and the suffering passive. |
| Causative | 受けさせる ukesaseru | 受けさせます ukesasemasu | Make or let someone do it. |
| Causative-passive | 受けさせられる ukesaserareru | 受けさせられます ukesaseraremasu | Be made to do it — the long one. |
| Imperative | 受けろ ukero | 受けてください uketekudasai | Blunt order. Use ~てください in real life. |
| Prohibitive | 受けるな ukeruna | — | “don’t!” — dictionary form + な. |
| Conditional (~ば) | 受ければ ukereba | — | “if ~”. General rules and hypotheticals. |
| Conditional (~たら) | 受けたら uketara | — | “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.
